BELÁ BARTÓK

(1881-1945)

6.  What are the two basic types of Hungarian folk music?

• 1) parlando-rubato style, which refers to slow, usually vocal music that is very free and rhapsodic (i.e. very rubato in nature), and 
• 2) tempo giusto style, which refers to a highly energetic and rhythmic type of music used for dancing, which is primarily instrumental, not vocal.