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The first 11 partials of the harmonic/overtone series yields a group of notes which characterize Bartok’s “diatonic” system. Rearranged into a scale, it creates the “acoustic scale” – recognized as a Lydian dominant scale (mode 4 of melodic minor).
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The challenge of analyzing rhythmic form in such music is posed pithily by Bela Bartok's "Syncopation," one of the Mikrokosmos ' more advanced studies in keyboard and com- positional technique (Vol. V, No. 133).
Furthermore, Bartok's music seems to demand a model of tonal relationships that has two or more dimensions, in this case the diatonic (i.e., cycle of fifths material) and octatonic; this contrasts with the common-practice tonal system whose relationships are referable to the single dimension of the major scale.
Bartok analysis is a rich field, partly because of the very large num-ber of distinctive theories which have been developed from or applied to his music. For over seventy years now theorists have searched for special methods capable of analyzing his output. Perhaps it is a measure of Bartok's true greatness as a composer that his music can ...
Feb 4, 2010 · Bartok himself noted shortly before his death: ‘It is almost a truism that contemporary art music in Hungary has Eastern European folk music as its basis. However, there is much misunderstanding and misinterpretation with reference to the relation between our higher art music and our rural music’.
May 22, 2014 · Bartók borrows grouping and metric structure, variable tempo giusto principles and characteristic long/short rhythmic patterns, and pitch structure from old-style Hungarian folk song, casting these elements in the 3:2 proportions of Bulgarian meters and tempo of hyper-Bulgarian meters.
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In his precise use of pitch notations, refined through nearly forty years of transcription and analysis of folk song as well as through composition, he left abundant self-analyses of his own works, in the form of their scores, drafts, and sketches.
