Béla Bartók cytaty
Béla Bartók: Cytaty po angielsku
"The Folk Songs of Hungary" in Pro Musica VII (October 1928)
Kontekst: 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.
As quoted in The Enjoyment of Music : An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (1955) by Joseph Machlis; also The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (1992) by Jan Swafford
