Rumanian Folk Music: Instrumental Melodies

n several of his writings on folk music Bela Bart6k recalls an incident I that happened to him in 1904 during a visit to a small village in Tran­ 1 syl vania. Quite by chance he heard there an eighteen-year-old Hun­ garian peasant girl singing Hungarian folk songs whose construction was 2 significantly different from the songs he had known until then. This experience appealed to his imagination far deeper than chance oc­ currences usually do. It sparked in him a creative fire that was there...