Music in Hungary «An Illustrated History»

• ISBN: 9786155062018
• Condition: Like new, except the dust jacket, which is brushed by the edges.
• Includes 2 Cd's. (Kepes Magyar Zenetortenet, BR 0298, BR0299)
• Translated from the Hungarian by Bernard Adams. • • Contributions from 20 authors, including music historians and chorus masters. 8 consulting experts, including Hedwig Belitska-Scholtz.
• 400 color and black & white illustrations.

After wide-ranging research by the new generation of music historians, numerous previously hidden codices, music manuscripts and printed documents have come to light, the careful study and publication of which have made it possible for us to fill in a few of the blanks in the music history of Hungary. These new conciusions and discoveries have shown that musical practice in Hungary has been part of the music history
of Europe. Through the publication of the present volume, we make it possibie for those interested in music to form an over-arching picture of the history of musical culture in Hungary.

This volume, a coilection of pictorial and auditory documents with accompanying essays by leading authorities on individual topics, is a joint product of Hungarian musicoiogy, consisting of a series of essays on a number of crucial points. It is not a thoroughgoing history of music that follows a tidy series of genres, composers, works and events, but a series of independent articles, which nevertheless, by appropriate selection of subjects on a chronological basis, form a logical historical sequence.
With more than 400 illustrations and 140 minutes of recorded material the volume paints a vivid picture of a thousand years of musical culture in Hungary.