“THE HUNGARIAN FOLK-SONG … ECHO OF THE ENTIRE HUNGARIAN SOUL” – THOUGHTS UPON A QUOTATION FROM ZOLTÁN KODÁLY

“... it is false method to start out from the diatonicism and then later turn back to the pentatony as if to an exceptional oddity.” Zoltán Kodály writes these lines in 1943, after he ascertains that pentatonic tunes constitute the Hungarians most ancient music. Thus the pentatonic scale is very im...

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Published in:	Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica
Main Author:	Zoltán SZALAY
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Babeș-Bolyai University 2013-12-01
Subjects:	pentatonic diatonic folk-song Hungarian nations ethnic groups
Online Access:	https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/8855