BTK ZTI - BIRÓ, Viola

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Department:	Bartók Archives
Degree, position:	PhD, Research Fellow
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Room:	101
Phone:	+36 1 214 6770, Ext. 101

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Viola Biró studied musicology at the Gh. Dima Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), Romania (2004–2008), and at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest (2008–2010). Between 2010 and 2013 she attended doctoral studies in musicology at the same institution. Since September 2013 she has been working at the Bartók Archives, Institute for Musicology. She was co-editor of the 4^th volume of the Béla Bartók Collected Essays, published in 2016. She wrote her PhD dissertation on Béla Bartók’s research into Romanian folk music and its influence on his compositions (supervisor: László Vikárius).

Publications

I. Doctoral thesis

Bartók és a román népzene: Kutatás és komponálás 1909–1918 között [Bartók and Romanian Folk Music: Research and Composition between 1909 and 1918]. PhD thesis, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, 2018.

II. Editions

Bartók Béla írásai 4. Írások a népzenéről és a népzenekutatásról II [Béla Bartók Writings. Essays on Folk Music and Folk Music Research], ed. Vera Lampert–Dorrit Révész–Viola Biró. Budapest: Editio Musica, 2016.

III. Articles

„Adalékok Bartók 2. hegedűrapszódiájának népzenei forrásaihoz [Reconsidering the Folk Music Sources of Bartók’s Second Rhapsody for Violin and Piano]”. Magyar Zene 50/2. (2012 May): 188–209.

“A nagy háború küszöbén: Bartók hunyadi gyűjtésének néhány tanulsága” [On the Eve of the Great War: Some Lessons of Bartók’s Hunyad Collection], Magyar Zene 53/2 (May 2015): 121–145.

“Lucrările lui Bartók din 1915 în spiritul Pentru copii?” [In the Spirit of For Children? Bartók’s Piano Cycles of 1915]. Observator Cultural XVII/820–821 (28 April–11 May 2016), Appendix: VI.

“Bartók about the Romanian Folk Music, to the General Public,” Minority Studies 19 (2017): 120–132.

“A román népzene »székelyes-magyaros« dialektusa: Bartók mezőségi gyűjtéseiről” [The Szekler–Hungarian Dialect of Romanian Folk Music: Thoughts on Bartók’s Mezőség Collections]. In Székely népzene és néptánc, ed. István Pávai–Emese Sófalvi. Énlaka-konferenciák V. Budapest, Pécs, Énlaka: Hagyományok Háza, 2018, 113–125.