Bela Bartok using a gramaphone to record folk songs sung by Czech peasants
(Paul Griffith’s A Concise History of Modern Music / Wikipedia Commons)
Some of the best musical tunes come from folk music, so a lot of classical composers borrowed folk songs to use in their compositions. Hear examples by Mozart, Bartok, Copland and others this week on Classics for Kids.
Music used within the program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Variations on Ah, Vous Dirai je Maman
Béla Bartók: Roumanian Dances
George Enescu: Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1
Joseph Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne: Malurous Qu’o uno Fenno
Manuel de Falla: Concerto for Harpsichord
Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs
Aaron Copland: Old American Songs: I Bought me a Cat
William Grant Still: Get on Board
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel: Ein Mannlein Steht im Walde
Zoltán Kodály: Hary Janos: Intermezzo
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