Klezmer All Star Clarinet Gang plays Bartok
Interpretando Bartok: Fabuloso!
Bela Bartok and the Romanian folk dances:Romanian Folk Dances is a suite of six short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók in 1915, based on seven fiddle tunes of the Romanian Folklore.
Romanian traditional dance
A rich variety of traditional dances still exists in Romania due to the continuation of the feudal system until the mid 19th century and subsequently the isolation imposed by Ceausescu, which resulted in the continuance of a peasant life style. Romania is a unique European country as its folklore still exists in its natural environment, but this is now fast vanishing with spread of western culture and modern technology.
Any "dance" is a combination of elements: formation, regional style; motifs, musical rhythm, choreography and social occasion. A change in one or more of these elements can give another dance, sometimes too subtle for a visitor to understand. As newer dance formations become fashionable these combine with elements of the existing music and dance to give new local variants. New melodies may be used for old dances and new dances danced to old melodies.
The selection of dances performed in each village is often done in a fixed order, the slowest dances first, then sometimes men's showing off dances, ending with the fastest dances. These are known as dance cycles and are best developed in Transylvania.
Many Romanian dances are accompanied by loud shouts and calls known as Strigături which are called rhythmically, but often across the musical melody and rhythm. Such calls seem to be specific to Romania, and are only otherwise found in the Hungarian minorities of Transylvania. Individuality and improvisation is found both in couple and line dances with men demonstrating their agility and dance ability.
Dance researchers and dance teachers classify and group traditional dances. In Romania's case this classification is most often by musical rhythm for the line and circle dances and by choreographic form for the men's dances and couple dances.
In our East European dance pages were we attempt to place Romanian dances in context with other Balkan and European dances, and expose the similarities or uniqueness from the study of choreographic features.
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Yiren Lu, 12, playing Bartok, Six Romanian Folk Dances in Hungary, July 2005
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