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    Bela Bartok was a Hungarian composer in the late Romantic and early modern periods who was greatly influenced by Balkan folk music, particularly from Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. He conducted extensive field research throughout the Balkans to record folk songs and dances. Bartok incorporated elements from these folk traditions into his own compositions, most notably additive meter rhythms common in Balkan folk music. His recordings helped preserve cultural folk music and influenced later composers despite facing challenges with nationalism.

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    Bela Bartok was a Hungarian composer in the late Romantic and early modern periods who was greatly influenced by Balkan folk music, particularly from Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. He conducted extensive field research throughout the Balkans to record folk songs and dances. Bartok incorporated elements from these folk traditions into his own compositions, most notably additive meter rhythms common in Balkan folk music. His recordings helped preserve cultural folk music and influenced later composers despite facing challenges with nationalism.

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    BÉLA BARTÓK

    AND BALKAN Brendan O'Neal

    FOLK MUSIC
    FOLK MUSIC?
    Modern?
    Modern? Traditional
    -Music of a specific culture

    -Older than composers

    OR -Music of a people; not Bob


    Dylan
    - Late romantic/Early modernist
    Hungarian composer

    - Mostly focused on ethnomusicology


    and the study of folk musics of
    Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania

    - Great national pride for his research


    efforts throughout the Balkans,
    especially Bulgaria

    BÉLA BARTÓK
    "ROMANIAN FOLK DANCES"

    • Field Recordings:
    • https://youtu.be/MhCoDIiWtzw
    • Orchestral Recording:
    • https://youtu.be/dupNaW-jTa0
    • What do you recognize?
    THE "SO-CALLED BULGARIAN RHYTHM"
    (ADDITIVE METER)
    • Essay by Bartók on the additive meter present in many Balkan folk musics
    • This additive meter popularly attributed to Bulgaria by scholars after Bartók, though present
    throughout the Balkans and probably originally from Turkey
    • The most recognizable musical attribute from folk musics in Bartók's compositions
    EXAMPLES
    • String Quartet No.3
    • https://youtu.be/FXFR2n8kUhM?t=303
    • Mikrokosmos No. 113
    • https://youtu.be/OkUZB3JJOoE
    NATIONALISM

    • To create a national identity through the arts:


    • Language, architecture, plays, music, etc.
    • "The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds.
    Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will
    perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else." -Antonín
    Dvořák
    • Should forms of expression of native peoples be transformed and popularized for the masses?
    BARTÓK'S INFLUENCE

    • Averse to teaching composition, most influence was in he and Zoltán Kodály's recordings
    • Grew significantly after his death at the end of WWII
    • Compositions used as national socialist resistance to the landscape of European fascism and
    American capitalism, in the favor of local communist authorities by the 1950s
    • Recordings were a foundation for Academy of Science's complete collection of Hungarian folk
    musics
    • Most influence of recordings is simply found in his own compositions
    • "Je prends mon bien où je le trouve" ("I pounce on what is mine wherever I find it") - Molière
    REFERENCES

    • https://www.jstor.org/stable/43858001
    • https://doi-org.proxy-tu.researchport.umd.edu/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40686
    • https://doc-research.org/2018/03/rise-fall-market-socialism-yugoslavia/
    • https://leadingtone.tumblr.com/post/9040424368/additive-rhythm-can-refer-to-two-distinct
    • https://www.npr.org/2009/05/06/103733863/bartok-from-the-fields-to-the-concert-hall

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