Some of the most popular works of nineteenth-century music were labeled either "Hungarian" or "Gypsy" in style, including many of the best-known and least-respected of Liszt's compositions. In the early twentieth century, Béla Bartók and his colleagues questioned not only the Hungarianness but also the good taste of that style. Bartók argued that it should be discarded in favor of a national style based in the "genuine" folk music of the rural peasantry. Between the heyday of the nineteenth-cent...

• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of musical examples
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Rhapsody on Hungarian Themes: The Development of Hungarian Art and Music in Historical Context from the Reform Era to World War I
• Chapter 2. The Liszt centennial and Liszt's legacy in Hungarian musical life
• Chapter 3. From Gypsies to peasants: Race, nation, and modernity
• Chapter 4. Writing Hungarian Music: Genre, Motive, Spirit
• Chapter 5. Cosmopolitan Nationalist Modernis...