Description
"Peasant Costume," the second of Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances, is a brief dance arranged from Transylvanian folk music he collected. In just a few seconds of playing time, it condenses a simple yet vigorous folk melody. With few notes and a beginner-friendly difficulty, it offers an easy first taste of Bartok's engagement with folk sources.
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Sheet Music
Sheet music provided by Mutopia Project
About the Composer
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Bela Bartok was a Hungarian composer also renowned as an ethnomusicologist. He collected and studied folk songs from across Eastern Europe, incorporating their melodies and rhythms into his own music, making him one of the twentieth century's leading nationalist composers. His Romanian Folk Dances are among his best-known results of this work. This site features the second dance, "Peasant Costume."
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