Béla Viktor János Bartók
C.H.
Got a chuckle that Bartók has an IMDB page, and learned that in 1981 he received a Saturn award for his soundtrack to Kubric's The Shining.
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To C.H.
I'm surprised to see that Bartok collected Arabian folk songs in addition to traditional Hungarian and Romanian melodies.
I'm surprised to see that Bartok collected Arabian folk songs in addition to traditional Hungarian and Romanian melodies.
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He believed you could construct a diaspora history by tracing folk melodies throughout Asia and Europe. Published books on Hungarian, Rumanian, and Yugoslavian folk music before there was such a thing as ethnomusicology.
Wrote an essay in the forties challenging Hitler's notion of racial purity saying the most primitive and least interesting music came from North Africa where deserts kept cultures separate while the most beautiful and interesting music came from cultures interacting and influencing each other, so diversity and connection should be the value to be aspired to not purity. Nice.
"Race Purity In Music"
Béla Bartók
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