| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Out of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music | 3 |
| Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed? | 64 |
| The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary | 79 |
| Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945 | 101 |
| Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama | 119 |
| The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok | 149 |
| Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s | 172 |
| Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Bela Bartok | 203 |
| Bela Bartok: An Interview by Dezso Kosztolanyi | 228 |
| A Conversation with Bela Bartok | 235 |
| Recollections of Bela Bartok | 243 |
| A Change in Style | 276 |
| Bartok's Third String Quartet | 278 |
| Bartok's Foreign Tour | 282 |
| Two Bartok Obituaries | 290 |
| A Selection of Poems Inspired by Bela Bartok | 296 |
| Index of Names and Compositions | 307 |
| List of Contributors | 313 |
