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[jaypharell]

"Peasent music, in the strict sense of the word, must be regarded as a natural phenomenon; the forms in which it manifests itself are due to the instinctive transforming power of a community entirely devoid of erudition. ... Correspondingly it has in its individual parts an absolute artistic perfection in miniature forms which - one might say - is equal to the perfection of a musical masterpiece of the largest proportions. It is the classical model of how to express an idea musically in the most concise form, with the greatest simplicity of means, with freshness and life, briefly yet completely and properly proportioned."
-Bella Bartok, 1921