In Bartók’s Piano Works

Bela Bartok(1881-1945)was an outstanding figure in the music circles in Hungary in the 20 th century.He had ingeniously integrated Western classical and modern composition techniques with the internal spirit of Eastern European nations,so that constructed Bartok’s unique musical language with embodiment of the traditional Hungarian music culture,thereby creating a brilliant chapter for 20 th century music circles.This paper based on "Romanian Folk Dance",a representative piano work created by Bartok’s national music style,to demonstrate the embodiment of national elements in which from following six aspects:melody,rhythm,mode,melody,harmony,and percussive timbre,At the same time,by combining the inspiration obtained from performance by Grimaud,an French pianist,with his own performance practice,he proposed his own views on performance from two aspects of theory and practice,In the process of playing Bartok’s piano works,it is necessary to clearly grasp the nationality of the work and the composer’s writing intention,so we can express the work more accurately.