humusic1-4, Exercise 2: Folk music in two composers

Model answer (one possible choice; check each):

Bartok, the String Quartets: he absorbed the features of folk music, its rhythms, modes and the shapes of its melodies, into a modern style, rather than quoting tunes. The folk influence is in the sound and the structure.

Bartok, the arrangements, such as the piano and children's pieces: here he set folk tunes directly, with new harmony. So his work includes both arrangement and absorption.

Kodaly, the Dances of Galanta (1933): built on verbunkos-style music from the town of Galanta, so it draws on the older urban Hungarian style as well as folk material (check the sources).

Kodaly, choral works: many choruses are arrangements of folk songs or settings of folk-like texts, so arrangement is the main method there.

Summary: both composers used folk music in more than one way, and the way depends on the work.