Pickin’ Apart Bartók: How to Hear Folk Sounds in Classical Music
- Dates: April 2, 2025
- Time: 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Presented By: High Country Humanities
- Location: Jones House Cultural Center
- Address: 604 West King Street, Boone, NC 28607
- Price: Free
The classical composer Béla Bartók is perhaps most famous in the music world for having incorporated elements of folk music into his work, a practice that earned him the title of “father of ethnomusicology.” He even spent one summer in Asheville in 1945 and composed one of his piano concertos there.
What qualifies as folk music in North Carolina and around the world? What elements of rural sound inspired Bartók, and in which rural communities did they originate? In this workshop, participants will hear examples of and learn to recognize the folk sounds in classical music.
This event is intended for general audiences, and no prior knowledge of music is necessary to participate.