BARTOK

ROMANIAN FOLK
DANCES
LECTURE RECITAL PRESENTATION
ROMANIAN FOLK DANCES

Why I chose Romanian folk dances – my motivation

Why this name

- first name: Romanian folk dances from Hungary
-changed when Romania occupied Transylvania

Bartók with wax cylinder

recording machine
 WHEN & FOR WHOM

Six short movements written

by Bartok in 1915 for piano
The orchestration was made 2
years later

premiere of the orchestration:

February 1918 in Budapest

Dedicated to his teacher &

friend Janos Busitia
• (perform)
2 famous arrangements: this one by his friend Zoltan zsekely in 1925
premiere: 25th of October Arhnem Netherlands.
Orchestra arrangement by Willner
Recording by Bartok & Joseph Szigeti in 1930
Bartok was expert of Eastern European folk music.
FIRST DANCE
- Festive & energetic
- Dance for a man includes
high kicks
- tempo 80 but they play in
100
- there is intro in arr.
- beg till 20 A dorian, after20
aeolian
SECOND DANCE
- Quick & cheerful
- Dancers are holding each
other’s waists
- Is played in faster tempo
- F# dorian mode
- added the high voice (the
repetition)
THIRD DANCE
- Dancers stay in one place
- Harmonics in the arr
- Performed faster by Szigeti
and in tempo by szekely
- small intervals, augumented
seconds Arabic infuences in
general is D aeolian
FOURTH DANCE
- Passion & vibrato
- rhythm: duple meter but in
the violin in triple
- in the arr the high passage
is extra
- myxolydian and Arabic color
key center of C (1-18)
A major in (19 till end)
FIFTH DANCE AND
LAST DANCE
- Fifth: Slower tempo by Sgizeti
lively Childeen dance
D lydian mode
-last: performed in couples
D major D lydian mode
second theme c center, c lydian
with key signature g major
bar 33 A myxolydian