Saturday, May 27, 2006

"24th hour": Online data base of traditional village music

Mulató nóta (Rollicking song)
Flute and hit gardon from Gyimes

To give you a taste of how did traditional Hungarian village music sound like - or in many places, it still does - you can start your listening journey at the online data base of the "24th hour" collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Musicology.
They have near 6000 pieces on record.
Many of the performers that you can hear were born back in the 1800s!

An exciting album where you can hear the old recordings that were collected in the villages, along with famous arrangements: 

Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály


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