MUSL-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Rite Of Spring, Time Signature, Folk Music
6 Apr 2016
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What was the source of additive meter as exploited by. A feature of easters european folk music common to bartok"s work. Meters made up of groupings of two and three beats. Bartok toured hungary and surrounding regions collecting 10,000 folk melodies, which he annotated. Took special interest in tunes that he believes to be very old. In contrast to earlier approaches to folk song that tended to regularize it within the parameters of tonal harmony, bartok sought to make his transcriptions as accurate as possible. Recognizing the limitations of notation, he was an early advocate for the use of phonograph in fieldwork. Unrealistic and unscientific: often ignorant and racist idealization of so-called. Tribal cultures , especially african but also south american or polynesian all sometimes real and sometimes imagined. Was bound up with racism, colonial expansion and ignorance of the cultures whose traditions were being appropriated. An element of russian and european folk music that has permeated russian art music.
