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Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

Bela Bartok

With maturity comes the wish to economize – to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
BELA BARTOK

Maturity Simple Wish
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An “atonal” folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.)
BELA BARTOK

Creative Self Tone
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
BELA BARTOK

Art Development Matter
I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
BELA BARTOK

Absolute Approach Foundation Music
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
BELA BARTOK

Absolutely Nothing Music
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.
BELA BARTOK

Ideas Mean Order
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
BELA BARTOK

Believe Composer May
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.
BELA BARTOK

Echoes Music Years
Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type.
BELA BARTOK

Creative Must Since Tonal Work
Competitions are for horses, not artists.
BELA BARTOK

Funny Inspirational Inspiring
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
BELA BARTOK

Absolutely Nothing Music

Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

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Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

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