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The Busójárás (Hungarian, meaning "Busó-walking"; in Croatian: Pohod bušara [1]) is an annual celebration of the Šokci living in the town of Mohács, Hungary, held at the end of the Carnival season ("Farsang"), ending the day before Ash Wednesday.
Hungarian folk music is a prominent part of the national identity and continues to play a major part in Hungarian music. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Busójárás carnival in Mohács is a major folk music event in Hungary, formerly featuring the long-established and well-regarded Bogyiszló orchestra . [ 3 ]
Little is known about Hungarian music prior to the 11th century, when the first Kings of Hungary were Christianized and Gregorian chant was introduced. During this period a bishop from Venice wrote the first surviving remark about Hungarian folk song when he commented on the peculiar singing style of a maid.
Hungarian music may refer to: Music of Hungary , which includes many kinds of music associated with Serbian, Roma and ethnically Hungarian people Hungarian folk music , which is found in Hungary as well as parts of Serbia, Slovakia and Romania
Hungarian rock has been a part of the popular music of Hungary since the early 1960s. The first major bands were Illés, Metró and Omega. At the time, rock was not approved of by the Hungarian Communist authorities. In the 1970s, the Communists cracked down on rock, and Illés was banned from recording.
Its music history has included the composers Franz Liszt, Ernő Dohnányi, Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók and the opera composer Ferenc Erkel. Hungary, especially Budapest, has a rich musical culture, whether its classical music, modern experimental, electronica, alternative music, or traditional Hungarian folk music.
The name Népzene is also used for Hungarian folk music as an umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional folk music from Hungary and Hungarian minorities living in modern-day Austria, the, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, central Romania (Transylvania) (Székely), Moldova (Csángó), and Serbia.
Verbunkos (Hungarian: [ˈvɛrbuŋkoʃ]), other spellings being Verbounko, Verbunko, Verbunkas, Werbunkos, Werbunkosch, Verbunkoche; sometimes known simply as the hongroise or ungarischer Tanz [1] is an 18th-century Hungarian dance and music genre.