folk music retained ancient melodies x. century : hungary became part of europe’s culture ...
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Folk music retained ancient melodies X. century : Hungary became part of
Europe’s culture adopting foreign musical achievement
without rejecting our traditions Christianity : plainsong, Gregorian chant Secular music : we can rely only on written
references and contemporaneous folk music
Gregorian chants in two voices Matthias Corvinus : employed 40 singers;
this chorus rivalled that if the Holy See orBurgunoly in size and qualityof performance
OttomanTurkish occupationof Hungary:
-> Gregorian musical life ceasedin the central ages ( 1524-1686 )
-> Protestan reformers : translated liturgical songs
-> long chronicles about historical events and biblical parables
-> Transylvania formed the Eastern part of Hungary :
- cultivating Hungarian national consciousness
- foreign musicians eg.: Giovanni Battista Mosto : Madrigals of Alba Julia
Bakfark Bálint : contributed to making instrumental music
After Turkish dominance : absorbing the new European style baroque
Musicians from abroad Esterházi family : orchestra in Kismarton
conducted by Gregor Joseph Weined andJoseph Haydn
national consciousness
dance music called verbunkos
Egressy Béni : adopted it in his operas and songs
“Hungary image” in works by great Western composers (Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Weber, Berlioz, Brahms)
romantic period : new national music Erkel Ferenc : amalgamating verbunkos
and quality European music
Liszt Ferenc : uniting the European romanticism with Hungarian traditions
Béla Vikár: collecting folk songs Hungarian musical performing art had attained
international recognition Zoltán Kodály : - musicial education of people - collecting folk songs- incorporating them into school education - ‘‘Kodály method ‘‘ of teaching music(used abroad too) - choral peaces and two
oratorious
Béla Bartók: turned to the traditions of folk music
After the World War II. folksy comporitions
Ferenc Sebő and Béla Halmos : collecting traditional folk songs -> revival of Hungarian folk music and dancing -> dance house movement
Other bands : fame within and outside Hungary
Pop music : opporition to the ragulation
Rock operas and rock oratories