Michael Parloff: Lecture on The Style Hongrois (Music@Menlo)

Michael Parloff explores the progression from the musical exoticism of the "Style Hongrois" to the authenticity of folk-based, modernist musical languages. Part 1 provides insight into 18th- and 19th-century Hungarian-style exoticism in the music of such composers as Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, and Liszt. This 43-minute lecture is the first part of a 2-hour Encounter entitled “From Exoticism to Folkorism.” Part 2 (about Béla Bartók’s Quest for Musical Authenticity) can also be viewed on YouTube at    • Michael Parloff: Lecture on Bartók’s Quest...   This Encounter was recorded on August 3, 2014 at Music@Menlo; Chamber Music Festival and Institute, David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors Chapters: Introduction and Turkish Style: 0:00 The Rise of the Style Hongrois: 7:56 Hummel’s Hungarian-Style Dances: 12:00 Cimbalom style in Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11: 14:26 Intervalic and Rhythmic indicators of the Style Hongrois: 16:18 Military Associations in the Style Hongrois: 21:00 Hallgató and Verbunkos Style: 23:20 Ferenc Erkel: 27:45 Schubert’s use of Style Hongroise: 31:40 Liszt’s use of Style Hongroise: 35:45 Brahms’s use of Style Hongrois: 38:50 Video edited by Darryl Kubian, Indigo Fox Media