Baladă și joc

Baladă şi joc (Ballad and Dance) (1950) is a short piece for two violins by György Ligeti, based on two Romanian folk songs.

In 1949, before graduating from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Ligeti spent the year researching folk music in Romania. Some of the songs he transcribed on that trip eventually became the basis for Baladǎ şi joc, and also his Concert românesc (1951).

The work is in two movements. The first, Ballad, is slow, melodic yet contrapuntal, and highly expressive. The second movement, Dance, is exuberant and very virtuosic.

György Ligeti Orchestral works Ramifications Atmosphères Concertante Piano Concerto Violin Concerto Hamburg Concerto Chamber/Instrumental String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet No. 2 Baladă şi joc Sonata for Solo Cello Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano Piano music Due capricci Invention Musica ricercata Chromatische Phantasie Three Bagatelles Études Vocal/Choral Magány Bujdosó Pletykázó asszonyok Lakodalmas Haj, ifjuság! Kállai kettős Pápainé Mátraszentimrei dalok Éjszaka – Reggel Lux Aeterna Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin Magyar Etüdök Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel Opera Le Grand Macabre Other compositions Artikulation (tape) Continuum (harpsichord) Poème symphonique (100 metronomes) Related articles List of compositions by György Ligeti Micropolyphony Portal:Classical music