László Vikárius is head of the Budapest Bartók Archives and lecturer in the history of Western music at the Liszt University of Music. He has published articles on Bartók and medieval music theory and a full-length study on influences in Bartók's music.Vera Lampert, a former research fellow at the Budapest Bartók Archives, is the Music Catalog Librarian at Brandeis University Libraries. She is author of The New Grove Modern Masters: Bartók, Stravinsky, Hindemith.

• Part 1 Preface by the EditorsPart 2 László Somfai: An AppraisalPart 3 A Reverse InterviewPart 4 Part I: Theoretical Issues: Performance Practice, Editing, and Interpreting MusicChapter 5 1. The Unbearable Lightness of Ethnomusicological Complete Editions: The Style of the ba'al tefillah (Prayer Leader) in the East European Jewish ServiceChapter 6 2. Ordinary Melodies in the Context of the "Old Romant Chant" QuestionChapter 7 3. In the Workshop of the musicusChapter 8 4. Performing Medieval Music in the Late-1960s: Michael Morrow and Thomas BinkleyChapter 9 5. 19th-Century Paths to Palestrina's Music: Italian, German, and French Editions of the Missa Papae MarcelliChapter 10 6. Watermarks are Singles, Too: A Miscellany of Research NotesChapter 11 7. Toward a Performance History of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin: Preliminary InvestigationsChapter 12 8. "Returning to the Skin": On Theodor W. Adorno's Theory of Musical InterpretationPart 13 Part II: Classical Style: From Gluck through BeethovenChapter 14 9. Siciliana-Tempi and Haydn's SicilianosChapter 15 10. Haydn's Op. 9: A Critique of the Ideology of the "Classical" String QuartetChapter 16 11. The Voice of God in Haydn's CreationChapter 17 12. Gluck's Serenata Tetide (1760) and Mozart: A Supplement to the Preface to the First Edition in the Gluck-GesamtausgabeChapter 18 13. Did Mozart "Pedal," and If So, How Much and Where?Chapter 19 14. Mozart's Chamber Music with Keyboard: A Musical Panorama of Europe, 1762-1788Chapter 20 15. Mozart's Mannheim Sonatas for Violin and PianoChapter 21 16. Mozart's Modular Minuet MachineChapter 22 17. Praise of Wine from Ofen, Ugliness, and Fiendship: Three Occasional Compositions by Franz Xavier SüßmayrChapter 23 18. Recycling Old Ideas in Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132Part 24 Part III: Nineteenth Century: Questions of a National StyleChapter 25 19. A Suggestive Detail in Weber's FreischützChapter 26 20. Franz Liszt's First Hungarian Symphonic Attempt: The National-ungarische SymphonieChapter 27 21. Umerenno or Andantino molto: On Musorgsky's Tempo MarkingsPart 28 Part IV: Twentieth Century: Schoenberg, Bartók, Kodály, and BeyondChapter 29 22. Anxiety, Abstraction, and Schoenberg's Gestures of FearChapter 30 23. Wagnerian Details in Webern's Op. 5, No. 2Chapter 31 24. Zoltán Kodály's Art of Fugue: About the Neo-Classicism of the Concerto for OrchestraChapter 32 25. Bartók Analysis in AmericaChapter 33 26. Bartók and His Song TextsChapter 34 27. The Making of a Cycle of Folksong Arrangements: The Sources of Bartók's Eight Hungarian FolksongsChapter 35 28. A Stray Leaf from Bartók's Black Pocket-BookChapter 36 29. Background of Bartók's "Bitonal" BagatelleChapter 37 30. Analytical Notes to Bartók's Improvisations, Op. 20 and the Ordering of the SeriesChapter 38 31. Narrative Analysis in the Comparative Approach to Performances: The Adagio of Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and CelestaChapter 39 32. Some Impressions on the Performance Tradition of the Bartók Violin ConcertoChapter 40 33. "Hommage à Sacher via Bartók": Bartók Quotations in Henri Dutilleux's Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher and Heinz Holliger's AtembogenChapter 41 34. Luciano Berio's Sonata per pianoforte solo or The Disclosures of a Sketch PagePart 42 A Somfai BibliographyPart 43 Index of Proper NamesPart 44 About the Contributors

Vikárius (Budapest Bartók Archives and history of Western music, Liszt U. of Music, Hungary) and Lampert (librarian, Brandeis U.) compile 34 essays celebrating Hungarian musicologist László Somfai (b.1934), who was head of the Budapest Bartók Archives and a scholar of the music of Haydn and Bartók. Music scholars from around the world discuss topics relating to his research and methodology in all musical periods, performance practice, editing, and interpretation of music, the Classical style, nationalism, and composers of the twentieth century. The bibliography lists Somfai's writings by genre.