[5] October 17 — Folk music through modern eyes
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Béla Bartók, "On Hungarian music" (1911), from Essays, ed. Benjamin Suchoff (1976), 301–303.
Judit Frigyesi, "Béla Bartók and the concept of nation and Volk in modern Hungary," The Musical Quarterly 78 (1994):255–287.
Frigyesi discusses something called "verbunkos," and you can immediately get a sense of the force of her argument by sampling from this traditional rendering:
Now listen to popular composer Ferenc Erkel's chamber music version, nominally in the same style:
Go to music module, "Beyond Romanticism".
Further reading:
Hermann Laroche, "Новый сборник русских народных мелодий" (1888), Музыкально-критические статьи, 148-156.
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