Béla Bartók at the piano Rumanian Folk Dances

Béla Bartók at the piano
Rumanian Folk Dances - 1. Jocul cu bata, 2. Braul, 3. Pe loc, 4. Buciumeana, 5. Poarga romaneasca, r

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[hglkmn]

What nationality?:

- Bartok was too much of a Hungarian for the Romanians

- He was too much a Romanian for the Hungarian

- He was too much of an Eastern-European-Barbaric for the Americans...

What nationality...?

Who cares.

His music flies. Don't try to play politics with it.. It'll bite you.

[0601989m]

Although one could perhaps argue that a composer's procedence is a relevant factor in creating his or her particular style, some people do choose to waste their time and energy in a pointless debate about whether Bartok's native town was or is now a part of Romania or Hungary. Perhaps we should be spending more of our time talking about the music, and not the trivialities surrounding it! In plain English: Shut up! You bunch of moronic nerds!!

[lamikati]

Moja absolventská skladba na Konzervatoriu v Bratislave v roku 1982



[rafa8660]

Amazing

Thank you for this post!

[surirach]

Very lovely - thank you por post.

[TehSorso]

@TreblemakerDee80 it can, but not in English. You can't have "Rumanian Folk Dances", like you cant have "Dansuri populare Romanian".

[TreblemakerDee80]

@TehSorso it can be spelled three ways

[ImperXVIII]

@mehvica Romanian folklore is very complex and had suffered many influences over time. The oldest and most authentic level is in the ancient "colinde" (carols), dating back from the Dacian times (search Ioan Bocsa, Grigore Lese and others, or my channel with Electronica Ambient adaptations).

Most dance music is much more recent and had two-way influences with Hungarians (in Transylvania), Serbs (in Banat), Turks and Bulgarians (in the southern regions) and Ukrainians (in northern Moldova).

[mehvica]

@ImperXVIII I listened to some horas by Dinicu (tracking down Liviu Prunaru) :) and I could indeed feel the difference. The Romanian people living in Transylvania have indeed a very fine sense of melody and rhythm. But of course hora and sirba are fine too :) Thanks for your help, I'll be looking out for Prunaru in case he visits Budapest.

[ImperXVIII]

@mehvica Yes, it is. Most of the tunes used here are from Alba, Mures and Bihor counties, and one from the Banat. The Balkan influence is in southern Romania and is relatively recent (after the Turkish suzerainity, 17-19 centuries).

[mehvica]

@ImperXVIII Great perfrmance :) Do you happen to know if this is Transylvanian Romanian music? So it seems to me, not the Balkan-style tradition - I wonder. I've always been fond of Tr-Ro folk music.

[ImperXVIII]

@mehvica Many people play this great work, for example try Liviu Prunaru's interpretation here on YT (the violin version, though).