Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bartók, Béla,
• Suchoff, B.,

Titel

Rumanian folk music : instrumental melodies

Auflage

1st ed. 1967

Ort / Verlag

The Hauge, The Netherlands : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,

Erscheinungsjahr

[1967]

Link zum Volltext

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Preface -- Choice of the Material -- Grouping of the material in general -- to Volume One -- Grouping of the Melodies -- Instruments -- List of the Various Dance Genres -- Order of Dances in Sunday Dancing -- Choreography to Some of the Dances -- Musical Characteristics -- List of Melodies of Possibly Foreign Origin -- Remarks on Some of the Performers -- Explanation of the Signs Used in the Music Notations -- Statistical Data Concerning the Output in Counties and Villages -- Errata in the Melodies -- Music Examples -- Notes to the Melodies.
• 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 Tran1 syl vania. Quite by chance he heard there an eighteen-year-old Hungarian 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 occurrences usually do. It sparked in him a creative fire that was thereafter 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.
• English
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