The Tonality Distinguishing And Harmony Form Of Bartok OP.6₁4_Bagatellen

The traditional major and minor functional chord last from the late seventeenth century to the end of nineteenth century, which maintains the development and change of more than 200 years. After the mid-nineteenth century, many western composers break the traditional harmony constraint and widely used three chords within twelve errhythmic. At the early twentieth century, this creation technique has become more and more perfect, and then through the development of European composers, by the middle of the twentieth century, it has already formed a richer color of harmonic technique than the traditional tonality.In the “bartok op.6₁4_bagatellen”, Bartok applies many special mode arrangements and a variety of modes of chord to gradually get rid of the constraint of traditional harmony. He mixes the Hungarian folk tunes with the western traditional and modern methods. This kind of exploration and innovation give new meaning to the Hungarian folk tunes. It also shows a new look of traditional Hungarian folk music. Besides, it provides valuable reference and inspiration for the creative thinking of later composers. Liberated from the traditional major and minor mode, it obviously does not mean to blindly abandon the basic law of tonality system—this is retrogress of music art. This liberation from traditional function of law should be understood to use other techniques to replace these components, and try to rationally choose composers’ favorite mode synthesis in aesthetics, so as to create a new system.This paper analyzes the mode and application through Bartok op.6₁4_bagatellen. It finds out the transformation law of the traditional western harmony theory to modern harmony theory. It shows the link of western music and the new techniques of harmony between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century. It includes how to reflect the harmony characteristics of mode fusion of modern music works and how the new harmony techniques reflect the creation rules of modern music works. It also displays the modern harmony techniques under the condition of thinking on the basis of traditional tonal harmony theory, thus to understand the modern composing ideas of Eastern Europe national style combining with Europe music at the end of nineteenth century, which grasp the trend of new music development. Through the analysis of Bartok’s works, it discusses the development process for exploration the breakthrough of traditional western music into the modern characteristics.