Folk Music in Bartók's Compositions – Browse – BB067-L137-03

L 137

Series I, 3. Allegro [D-oi roagă să roagă]

Romanian Christmas Songs (1915; BB 67)

Recording:

MH_3431a

Collecting:

Malomvíz/Râu de Mori (Hunyad/Hunedoara County), December 1913, Béla Bartók

Informant:

Iosif Dochia (25) and Dumu Brăila (26)

Performance:

voice

Ethnicity:

Romanian

(#) Source melody published in the first edition of the work

(A) MS field book: V, p. 29 (2nd melody)

(A*) Text collecting notebook: VI, fol. 60r

(B) MS master sheet: Col. I, no. 10b

(C) MS master sheet, carbon copy of (B) with Bartók’s later revisions, together with the facsimile of Bartók’s fair copy (later version): MMS, MH 3431a

(D) Colinde, no. 10b

(E) "Az úgynevezett bolgár ritmus" [The So-Called Bulgarian Rhythm] (1938), BÖI, 499; Essays, 41; BBI/3, 329.

CD_BUS-27

Zoltán Kocsis
Bartók New Series, Hungaroton Records, 2008

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