Bartók's Fourth String Quartet

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Every period of music has produced important advances in theory to analyze. But perhaps one of the most important periods of music to analyze came from the nineteenth century.
And certainly breaking down the thought process of certain composers such as Belá Bártók has become one of the most revered in the study of music composition.

Instead of analyzing this piece to the countless identical conclusions of many theorists and musicologists, this study will attempt to analyze a comparitive point of view of theorists in regards to the fourth string quartet. It will also contain compoarisons to his preceding three and post two string quartets.

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