Bela Bartok Quotes

• 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

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• Competitions are for horses, not artists.

  Bela Bartok

  Inspirador, Divertido, Inspirador

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• It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

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  Believe, May, Composer

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• 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

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• I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

  Bela Bartok

  Music, Absolutely Nothing

  Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).

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• 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

  Music, Echoes, Years

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• En el arte sólo hay desarrollos rápidos o lentos. En esencia, se trata de una evolución, no de una revolución.

  Bela Bartok

  Art, Development, Matter

  "Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening". Book by Joseph Machlis, 1955.

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• Nuestra música campesina, naturalmente, es invariablemente tonal, si no siempre en el sentido en que lo es el inflexible sistema mayor y menor. (Una música campesina "atonal", en mi opinión, es impensable.) Puesto que dependemos de una base tonal de este tipo en nuestro trabajo creativo, es bastante evidente que nuestras obras son de tipo tonal bastante pronunciado. Debo admitir, sin embargo, que hubo un tiempo en que pensé que me estaba acercando a una especie de música de doce tonos. Sin embargo, incluso en las obras de esa época, la base tonal absoluta es inconfundible.

  Bela Bartok

  Self, Creative, Tone

  "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, pp. 46-47, 1996.

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