Articles by Initial Letters
Cigányzene? Magyar zene?
Magyar népdalok a német zeneműpiacon – részletek
- Issue: 2020/1
- Starting page: 36
- Serie: Tallózó
- Author: Bartók Béla
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Bartók Béla: Gypsy music? Hungarian music? (Hungarian folksongs on the German music market) (excerpts) "...what you know as Gypsy music, is not Gypsy music, because it’s Hungarian music: newer Hungarian folk-like composed music, which is played by Gypsy musicians (because, according to tradition, playing music for money is not an upper class thing). The reason this is Hungarian music, is because almost without exception, it was composed by Hungarian gentlemen...”. "... the folk-like composed music and the peasant music have influenced one-another, but this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t differentiate one from the other...” ”...the simplest village Gypsy musician plays completely differently from a musician that plays in a city Gypsy band...” From a lecture given by Bartók to the Hungarian Society of Ethnography and was published in Ethnographia 1931 . XLII. 2. Reprinted in 1966 in a collection of Bartók’s writings by Zeneműkiadó, Budapest.