History of Hungarian Music

  • Áron Kiss published his collection of children’s game songs which sought to compile and disseminate musical material from the world of musical games played by children in rural Hungarian communities.

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    History of Hungarian Music

  • János Seprődi began using the phonograph in his own fieldwork in Transylvania.

  • Zoltán Kodály commenced study of the body of songs recorded by Vikár on phonograph cylinder.

  • Zoltán and Béla Bartók made their first attempts at the methodical, comprehensive collection of folk music from every territory where Hungarian was spoken.

  • Lajos Vargyas made substantial progress in the analysis of Hungarian folk poetry from a musical perspective.

  • Bartók published his first comprehensive analysis and scientific overview of Hungarian folk songs which categorised melodies as old, new, or mixed in style, and which divided up the territory of study on the basis of musical dialect.

  • Bartók published his first scientific overview of Hungarian folk songs.

  • With the re-annexation of northern Transylvania and southern Slovakia to Hungary, researchers again turned their attention toward peripheral territories, giving rise to the first monographs on individual villages.

  • Kalyi Jag was the first of the Hungarian Roma groups to present their music on stage.