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Rumanian Folk Music - Instrumental Melodies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1967)
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Rumanian Folk Music - Instrumental Melodies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1967)
Series: Bartok Archives Studies in Musicology, 1
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n several of his writings on folk music Bela Bart6k recalls an
incident I that happened to him in 1904 during a visit to a small
village in Tran 1 syl vania. Quite by chance he heard there an
eighteen-year-old Hun garian peasant girl singing Hungarian folk
songs whose construction was 2 significantly different from the
songs he had known until then. This experience appealed to his
imagination far deeper than chance oc currences usually do. It
sparked in him a creative fire that was there after to impart to
his music certain characteristics that are recognizable today as
indigenous to the Bart6kian style of composition. The inspirational
value of the incident was rekindled by return trips to
Transylvania. During these trips he was not merely listening. He
began notating, melodies, building them into a coordinated
collection. Soon Bart6k's itinerary took him into villages
populated in checkered proximity by both Hungarians and Rumanians,
thence into little communities where the population was exclusively
Rumanian. There he discovered that their songs were much less, if
at all, influenced by the urban civilization of Western Europe than
those he had collected in Hungarian villages. In an interview he
gave to a Transylvanian newspaper in 1922, Bart6k described the
difference between the available Hungarian and Rumanian songs."
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