Drei Volkslieder aus dem Komitat Csík

From 1906 on Béla Bartók was collecting folksongs on a regular basis. It was in 1907, during his first collecting trip to Transylvania, that he jotted down those three melodies in Gyergyóteker patak, Csík, which he both provided with piano accompaniment (From Gyergyó) and arranged for solo piano (Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík) in the same year. The melodies were played by a ''sixty-year old man'' on a peasant flute.