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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.
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.
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 softly melancholic album has been compared to the music of Ataraxia and Chandeen. [1] Live performances with songs from the album included an appearance on Hungarian National Television. [2] The second album Regő Rejtem (lit.: I conjure Magic) was released in 2007 and is completely sung in Hungarian. [3]
In 1933, Bartók adapted and orchestrated movements 6-15 of the piano version of the piece as Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 100, BB 107. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] While this version cuts the first five movements of the original and parts of the thirteenth, it also adds material, such as additional variations in movement 12. [ 4 ]
Muzsikás is a Hungarian musical group playing mainly folk music of Hungary and other countries and peoples of the region. [1] Established in 1973, it has also played works by classical composers, especially Béla Bartók, who himself collected folk tunes. The group has recorded other albums and, since 1978, has toured regularly around the world.
The World Tree carved on a pot. Amongst the modern religions, Hungarian mythology is closest to the cosmology of Uralic peoples. In Hungarian myth, the world is divided into three spheres: the first is the Upper World (Felső világ), the home of the gods; the second is the Middle World (Középső világ) or world we know, and finally the underworld (Alsó világ).