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Notes Concerning Bartók's Solo Vocal Music (III): The Twenty Hungarian Folksongs (1929)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

John S. Weissmann
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The contrapuntal inspiration of the Folksongs does not preclude harmonic inventiveness; in fact, contrapuntally controlled harmony gives wide scope to very advanced tonal excursions. Valid bi- and/or polytonality depends a great deal on a satisfactory combination of individual melodic lines with independent tonal allegiances. The most aggressive tonal clashes are, as a rule, convincingly explained by melodic, contrapuntal progressions: it is an interesting fact that the most daring dissonances usually conceal a stereotyped melodic formula of age-long usage. To mention but one example, which is said to be an English peculiarity too, here is a passage from Taverner's Lamentations:

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Tempo , Issue 40 , Summer 1956 , pp. 18 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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