Folk features 20th CE features
1 Use of pentatonic scale Bar 1 Extended instrumental techniques Bars 6-10
such as string sul ponticello and
muted strings
2 Use of octatonic scale. Prevalent Bars 242- Focus on tritone B 62-63
in Eastern European folk music 246 timpani
3 Creation of cimbalom timbre in Bars Changing metres Bars 175-
harp 438/439 181
4 Prevalence of flute and harp Deconstruction of motifs that are See intro
throughout piece utilised throughout the piece in and brass
different guises such as the role of chorale
4ths
5 Use of pedals originating from Loose structure to piece Throughout
folk music
6 Dotted rhythms folk dance like Rhythmic disruption via syncopation Bars 242-
woodwind 248
7 Structural symmetry appears at Augmentation features heavily Bars 288-
folk music e.g. ABA, AABB, VCVC 313
8 Use of scalic intervals as melodic Large variety of textures Throughout
backbone contrapuntal, fugal, homophonic,
chordal, polyphonic, stretto
9 The fact it’s a Bartok piece. Superimposition of 5 on 4 Bars 424-
Bartok was an ethnomusicologist 438
who spent a lot of his time
studying the folk music of
Eastern Europe
10 Lack of clear cadences see last Last 3 bars
couple of bars for disguised perfect
cadences
1 Use of pentatonic scale Bar 1 Extended instrumental techniques Bars 6-10
such as string sul ponticello and
muted strings
2 Use of octatonic scale. Prevalent Bars 242- Focus on tritone B 62-63
in Eastern European folk music 246 timpani
3 Creation of cimbalom timbre in Bars Changing metres Bars 175-
harp 438/439 181
4 Prevalence of flute and harp Deconstruction of motifs that are See intro
throughout piece utilised throughout the piece in and brass
different guises such as the role of chorale
4ths
5 Use of pedals originating from Loose structure to piece Throughout
folk music
6 Dotted rhythms folk dance like Rhythmic disruption via syncopation Bars 242-
woodwind 248
7 Structural symmetry appears at Augmentation features heavily Bars 288-
folk music e.g. ABA, AABB, VCVC 313
8 Use of scalic intervals as melodic Large variety of textures Throughout
backbone contrapuntal, fugal, homophonic,
chordal, polyphonic, stretto
9 The fact it’s a Bartok piece. Superimposition of 5 on 4 Bars 424-
Bartok was an ethnomusicologist 438
who spent a lot of his time
studying the folk music of
Eastern Europe
10 Lack of clear cadences see last Last 3 bars
couple of bars for disguised perfect
cadences
