DXXXI. TRADITIONAL
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Mihály Sipos, violin
Péter Éri, viola
Dániel Hamar, bass
(5:16)
A melody accompanies the male stick dance that is characteristic of the ethnic Romanians who live in Upper Marosvidék in Transylvania. The melodies are presented in a chain as it often happens in village dances. Béla Bartók collected and transcribed all three melodies.
The first was recorded in 1912 in Voiniceni (in Maros county). The second was performed on the violin and recorded in 1914 in the village of Idicel (also in Maros county). Bartók used this melody in his Second Rhapsody for Violin and Piano (1928). The third melody is used almost unchanged in the first piece of Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances (see Post CXLIX). He even retained the characteristic accompaniment.
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