Magyar népdalok gitárra - Hungarian Folk songs for guitar - by Adrovicz István / Editio Musica Budapest 2005 / Paperback / Ungarische Volkslieder für Gitarre

Paperback 2005

ISMN  9790080130278  /  979-0080130278

PAGES: 12

PUBLISHER: Editio Musica Budapest Zeneműkiadó

LANGUAGE: Hungarian, English, German

Made in Hungary

English Description:

Hungarian folk music (Hungarian: magyar népzene) includes a broad array of Central European styles, including the recruitment dance verbunkos, the csárdás and nóta.

The name Népzene is also used for Hungarian folk music as an umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional folk music from Hungary and Hungarian minorities living in modern-day Austria, the, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, central Romania (Transylvania) (Székely), Moldova (Csángó), and Serbia.

The obscure origins of Hungarian folk music formed among the peasant population in the early nineteenth century with roots dating even further back. However, its broader popularity was largely due to the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, who in 1846 began composing 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano, five of which were later orchestrated, thus being the first pieces of music by a major composer to incorporate sources from so-called “peasant music”. These works, which broke free from classical tradition, were often viewed by the elite as brash and unrefined, yet they deeply influenced others, like Johannes Brahms, and later Zoltán Kodaly and Béla Bartok, even having an influence on American jazz.