JAVS Spring 2001

THE ROMANIAN NATIONALIST INFLUENCES ON THE VIOLA WORKS OF STAN GoLESTAN AND GEORGE ENESCU 41

ular piece. Note the accented fourth beat in the piano part in the following example. Also note that the high E in the viola part lands on the second sixteenth of the third beat. Although the note itself does not have an accent mark, the shape of the line provides a natural accent on that note.

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The melodies contained in the B section are structured motivically. Generally, these motives span a pentachord, and are repeated seemingly without plan or order. This use of repeated motivic units is a natural element of the music of this country. A bagpipe player that Bart6k met in his travels, Lazar Lascus, exemplifies the tradition of this type of music? Lazar played thirty one dance pieces, which Bart6k recorded. When Bart6k later analyzed the pieces he found that they contained one hundred and six motifs. The motives that Golestan uses are not so random as those of Lascus. Golestan pays homage to this Romanian tradition by repeating motives and utilizing fragments of the preceding motives to build a new motivic series. Examples 3a-3d demonstrate Golestan's use of motivic material.