Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.” I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. (An “atonal” folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) 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. “Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology. Bartok is considered one of the most important representatives of modernism. On March 25, 1881, Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartok was born.
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