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The phenomenon of folklorism in 20th century: a case study in Eastern Europe (2023)

Miguel Esperanza Pérez
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Since the science that studies the popular music of an ethnic group was called ethnomusicology in the mid-twentieth century, folklore began to be revalued in the artistic field. Despite the late acceptance of this musical characteristic, before it, there have been many composers who have nourished their compositions with folkloric elements, thus enriching the musical language. If we want to talk about folk music and classical music at the same time, the figure of Béla Bartók obtains a fundamental relevance as far as this concept is concerned. To study the composer of Hungarian origin is fundamental to study this nationalist artistic current that arises at the beginning of the 20th century and that tries to enhance the national value through the differential symbols of each place the different elements that form each respective folklore. In the same way that the historicist performers do by approaching their interpretation to the context of the work, this research proposes in the same way the interpretation of these folkloric elements within the field of classical music. The objective will be approached from the absence of a precise definition to refer to this concept, which we have called folklorism, to later analyze how these folklorisms appear in classical music and how we, as performers, must approach their interpretation from a truly perspective with their origin. Within the broad spectrum of this topic, we have selected 'Contrasts' by Béla Bartók as a starting point for this research.
typeresearch exposition
keywords20th century music, Bartók, Art of Interpretation, Artistic reserach, Clarinet, violin, piano, folk music, Folklorism, Chamber music, traditional music
date19/02/2023
published19/07/2023
last modified19/07/2023
statuslimited publication
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copyrightMiguel Esperanza Pérez
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1960615/1960616
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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comments: 1 (last entry by Emlyn Stam - 22/02/2023 at 17:54)
Emlyn Stam 22/02/2023 at 17:54

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