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What do you consider to be the main items of change in Bartók’s concerto from the practice of the baroque composers in the Concerto Grosso?
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Elizabeth Morgan. What do you consider to be the main items of change in Bartók's concerto from the practice of the baroque composers in the Concerto Grosso? The Bartók model is more dissonant, harmonically ambiguous in places, and more interesting rhythmically. It is written for a large full orchestra with no set concertino group and involves more use of percussion instruments. Bartók uses short, narrow melodic phrases with a strong contrapuntal texture in places. He uses scales other than major and minor, and there is extreme chromaticism and virtuoso handling of a wide range of instruments, with specific and direct instructions for the playing of those instruments. In the first movement, the wedge figure which appears frequently is very chromatic. The Serbo-Croat melody in bar 76 is based on the germinal motive: F, G, Aflat, Bflat, Bnatural, C. The F - Bnatural of which is based on the octatonic scale made up of...
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