Zoltán Kodály (b. 1882)

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY, a professor at the Academy of Music in Budapest, was a colleague of Béla Bartók in the long project of collecting the folk songs of their native land in the form in which these songs were known to and sung by the people. His learning is vast, perhaps especially in the music of Palestr...

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Published in	Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire p. 302
Main Author	DONALD N. FERGUSON
Format	Book Chapter
Language	English
Published	University of Minnesota Press 25.03.1968
Edition	NED - New edition
Subjects	Anthropology Applied anthropology Arts Behavioral sciences Cultural anthropology Emperors Folk culture Folk music Folkloristics Folksongs Government Government officials Heads of state Human populations Literary characters Literary elements Literature Monarchs Music Music theory Musical forms Performing arts Persons Political science Population studies Prisoners Social sciences Suites Variation forms
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Summary:	ZOLTÁN KODÁLY, a professor at the Academy of Music in Budapest, was a colleague of Béla Bartók in the long project of collecting the folk songs of their native land in the form in which these songs were known to and sung by the people. His learning is vast, perhaps especially in the music of Palestrina’s time, and this fact is doubtless responsible for the relatively slight volume of his compositions. A certain self-diffidence toward his own work — noted with regret by his pupils — has also prevented the acquisition of a distinctive style such as a composer of firmer convictions
ISBN:	9780816604678 0816604673