Can Cakmur - Without Borders: B�la Bart�k; Dimitri Mitropoulos; Ahmed Adnan Saygun; George Enescu

Towards the end of the 19th century, �several composers were taking a new interest in folk music. Folk tunes, or imitations of them, had previously mainly been used in order to provide �local colour� or as a way of catering to nationalist sentiments, but it was now seen as a means to revitalize art music itself, opening up for new possibilities in terms of rhythm and harmony as well as melody. At the forefront of this development was B�la Bart�k, who also considered the use of folk elements as a tool to transcend boundaries � to achieve a �brotherhood of peoples�.