“Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (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. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.”
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Bela Bartok
Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist, a major figure in 20th-century music. His works are renowned for incorporating folk music elements and innovative techniques. Bartók's compositions are complex and profound, credited with expanding the harmonic language of Western music. more
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