Chapter 76: Béla Bartók and the European Tradition
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Key Points
- Twentieth-century composers used more authentic folk and traditional elements in their nationalistic music than nineteenth-century composers.
- National "schools" of composition developed across Europe in France, Russia, England, Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, and in various Eastern European countries.
- Hungarian composer Béla Bartók collected traditional songs and dances from his native land, and incorporated many of these elements into his compositions.
- Bartók's music displays new scales and rhythmic ideas and a modern, polytonal harmonic language, all set in Classical forms.
- His Concerto for Orchestra is a programmatic work that uses the whole ensemble as the "soloist."
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