BOHLMAN CHAPTER I dont know if that rendition is true to Bartóks original transcription, but old Hungarian music is supposed to be largely based on the pentatonic (5-tone) scale Showing that the polarization between folk and classical music was far from absolute, composers like Bartók borrowed from folk traditions as in this dance inspired by Hungarian folk music in Transylvania: http://www.youtube.com/watch v=T6V1EJD0fig http://www.youtube.com/watch v=T6V1EJD0fig Other composers who did similar things include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dvořák and, in the U.S.
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