Ernő Lendvai (1925 – 1993) was one of the first theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in
BartókBéla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and regarded, along with Liszt, as his country's greatest composer...
's music. He also formulated the
Axis systemIn music, the axis system is a system of analysis originating in the work of Ernő Lendvai, which he developed in his analysis of the music of Béla Bartók....
,
Acoustic scaleIn music, the acoustic scale is a seven note scale which, starting on C, contains the notes: C, D, E, F, G, A and B. This differs from the major scale in having a raised fourth and flattened seventh scale degree. It is the fourth mode of the melodic minor ascending scale , and is known in jazz as...
and
Alpha chordAn octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale. Among the most famous of these is a scale in which the notes ascend in alternating intervals of a whole step and a half step, creating a symmetric scale...
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Lendvai was married to the pianist Erzsébet Tusa, and together they moved to
SzombathelySzombathely, is a city in Hungary. It is the administrative center of the Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria.-Location:...
in 1949 to run a local music school.
- Szimmetria a zenében (Kodály Intézet, 1994)
- Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
- Verdi és a 20.
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Ernő Lendvai (1925 – 1993) was one of the first theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in
BartókBéla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, and regarded, along with Liszt, as his country's greatest composer...
's music. He also formulated the
Axis systemIn music, the axis system is a system of analysis originating in the work of Ernő Lendvai, which he developed in his analysis of the music of Béla Bartók....
,
Acoustic scaleIn music, the acoustic scale is a seven note scale which, starting on C, contains the notes: C, D, E, F, G, A and B. This differs from the major scale in having a raised fourth and flattened seventh scale degree. It is the fourth mode of the melodic minor ascending scale , and is known in jazz as...
and
Alpha chordAn octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale. Among the most famous of these is a scale in which the notes ascend in alternating intervals of a whole step and a half step, creating a symmetric scale...
.
Lendvai was married to the pianist Erzsébet Tusa, and together they moved to
SzombathelySzombathely, is a city in Hungary. It is the administrative center of the Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria.-Location:...
in 1949 to run a local music school.
In Hungarian
- Szimmetria a zenében (Kodály Intézet, 1994)
- Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
- Verdi és a 20. század: A Falstaff hangzás-dramaturgiája (Zenemukiadó, 1984)
- Polimodális kromatika (Kodály Zoltán Zenepedagógiai Intézet, 1980)
- Bartók és Kodály harmóniavilága (Zenemukiadó, 1975)
- Bartók Dramaturgiàja (Zenemükiaó Vállalat, Budapest, 1964)
In English
- Bartók's Style (Akkord Music Publishers, 1999)
- Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
- The workshop of Bartók and Kodály (Editio Musica, 1983)
- Bartók and Kodály (Institute for Culture, 1980)