Listening ( Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion, & Celesta Mvt. 1,3 (1936)

Bartok is another composer that has changed between the wars. He has followed a different path in composing music. This is a big change from the folk like songs for piano that he composed before the war. The use of strings in the piece, especially the viola, gives the piece a more middle sound. The basses have a large effect when moving up and down the chromatic scale. The strings in this song seem to follow a some what serial pattern. While it might not be as intense as Berg's work he does use certain repeats when traveling up and down chromatic scale. Overall the piece was an interesting change from his earlier work.