

Note right away the marking, "Ouch! a cobweb!," at m. After listening to his Mikrokosmos, furthermore, a collection of 153 pieces for piano, I was especially drawn to the piece entitled, "From the Diary of a Fly," not only for its musical ideas but for its humor as well.


Of all the twentieth-century classical music I have studied thus far, I have liked the music of Béla Bartók the best-his rhythmic complexity, assymetrical patterns, and interesting formal structures are all fascinating to me and have had a profound influence on my ways of thinking about music. Analysis of Bartók's "From the Diary of a Fly" Pattern Manipulation and Different Levels of Process in Béla Bartók's "From the Diary of a Fly" Mikrokosmos, vol.
