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Rumanian Folk Music

Instrumental Melodies

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  • © 1967

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Authors:
  1. Béla Bartók
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Editors:
  1. Benjamin Suchoff
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Part of the book series: Bartok Archives Studies in Musicology (BASM, volume 1)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-l
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  2. Preface

    • Béla Bartók
    Pages 1-6

  3. Introduction to Volume One

    • Victor Bator, Benjamin Suchoff
    Pages 7-64

  4. Errata in the Melodies

    • Victor Bator, Benjamin Suchoff
    Pages 66-67

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 65-704
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rumanian Folk Music

  • Book Subtitle: Instrumental Melodies

  • Authors: Béla Bartók

  • Editors: Benjamin Suchoff

  • Series Title: Bartok Archives Studies in Musicology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3499-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1967

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3501-9Published: 22 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3499-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: L, 704

  • Topics: Music, Performing Arts, Fine Arts

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