Music in Hungary

Rózsavölgyi

2011

320 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-312 and index

9786155062018

Introduction, music histories of former Hungary / Tibor Tallián The Carpathian Basin before the Hungarian conquest / Melinda Kaba Symphonia Hungarorum : the legend of Bishop St. Gerard / János Kárpáti Hungarian Gregorian chant / László Dobszay, Janka Szendrei Music at the royal courts / Márta Szekeres-Farkas The chroniclers of the Turkis occupation / Géza Papp An internationally renowned virtuoso from Hungary : Valentin Bakfark / Péter Király The music of the Reformation and Counter-reformation period / Ilona Ferenczi The court music of the Princes Esterházy / Ágnes Sas The music of towns in eighteenth-century Hungary / Zoltán Farkas Hungarian dances : from Ungaresca to Csárdás / László Felföldi, Géza Papp National theatre, National opera / Tibor Talliźn Franz Liszt on the path to Hungarian music / Mária Eckhardt Musical life in the age of dualism / Katalin Szerző Gypsy musicians : Hungarian folksy music / Bálint Sárosi Austro-Hungarian operetta under the monarchy / András Batta The discovery of peasant music / Ferenc Sebő Béla Bartók, one of the greatests of the twentieth century / László Somfai National characteristics universal values : Zoltán Kodály / László Eősze Another twentieth century / Anna Dalos World-renowned Hungarian performing art / András Batta

"After wide-ranging research by the new generation of music historians, numerous previously hidden codices, music manuscripts and printed documents have come to light, the careful study and publication of which have made it possible for us to fill in a few of the blanks in the music history of Hungary. These new conclusions and discoveries have shown that musical practice in Hungary has been part of the music history of Europe. Through the publication of the present volume, we make it possible for those interested in music to form an over-arching picture of the history of musical culture in Hungary. This volume, a collection of pictorial and auditory documents with accompanying essays by leading authorities on individual topics, is a joint product of Hungarian musicology, consisting of a series of essays on a number of crucial points. It is not a thoroughgoing history of music that follows a tidy series of genres, composers, works and events, but a series of independent articles, which nevertheless, by appropriate selection of subjects on a chronological basis, form a logical historical sequence. With more than 400 illustrations and 140 minutes of recorded material the volume paints a vivid picture of a thousand years of musical culture in Hungary."

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