Both pieces in the present volume are transcriptions from Bartók s Ten Easy Piano Pieces, a series composed for pedagogical purposes in 1908. Their themes are reminiscent of Hungarian and Slovak folk songs, although they are not authentic folk melodies. As Bartók explained in an American interview, An Evening in the Village was an original composition that is ... with themes of my own invention but ... the themes are in the style of the Hungarian Transylvanian folk tunes. There are two themes. ...