The Hungarian music culture has a mission since Bartok. Hungary is situated at the border of West and East. Our deepest mentality is Oriental, but Western culture made a determining influence on our culture. This influence is not definitely bad. The polyphony is another new and equal aspect of the music. There are intentions in Arabic maqams to extend the music to the polyphony. In Hungarian music due to Bartok we have a huge heritage of the highest level of polyphony. His harmony concept can be an important basis to make a new synthesys between the ancient oriental music systems and Western chromatic polyphony. Bartok managed to create a real syntheses between oriental pentatony and western chromaticism.
In the Modern Hungarian Maqam the way of building the music can not only be melodic but it can be polyphonic also. The Modern Hungarian Maqam is a perfect medium to start on this path.