![]() The melodies of a written or printed collection are in essence dead materials. It was of the utmost consequence to us that we had to do our collecting of folk songs ourselves, and did not make the acquaintance of our melodic material in written or printed collections. This attitude is best illustrated by the statement Bartok wrote in 1928: ‘Spirit’ was something beyond the material of music in the case of folk music, it expressed the totality of lived experience. ![]() Among the most important elements in the background of this aesthetics was a dual conception of the artwork’s ‘spirit.’ As Bartok understood it, the artwork was to express a communal spirit (the spirit of folk music) and yet arise from the inner urge of the artist to express his emotions. ![]()
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