Nógrád Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve XXVI. (2002)
Néprajz - Tari Lujza: Nógrád megye népzenéjének 20. századi gyűjtői
LUJZA TARL Field Workers and Folk Music Researchers of Nógrád county in the 20 th Century Soon in the early 20* Century there was a remarkable number of phonograph cylinders at the disposai of Hungárián Ethnographich Museum with recordings of Hungárián, as well as Gypsy, Románián, Slovakian, Ruthenian, Wendic ect. vocal and instrumental folk music. Hungárián recordings enjoyed great prestige soon in the 1920 л years and the collecting work in Hungary was acknowledged as a forefronter ail over Europe. After this time many new results (within the série Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungaricae estabilished by B.Bartók and Z. Kodály, or the Catalog of Hungárián Folk Song Types éd. by L. Dobszay-J. Szendrei) of Hungárián ethnomusicologist were wellknown in the world. In spite of thèse fact there are somé geographical territories in Hungary, which are known from the side of history of collecting of folk music only in a narrow professional Community, also in Hungary .This is why the author summarised the history of folk music field works, collecting and recording of folk music in the ethnographically very interesting, traditional-keeping county, in Nógrád. Nógrád is part of the second folk music dialect of Hungary, it is on the so called "NortiY'musical dialectal area. (The Hungárián dialect territories were descripted first by Béla Bartók in 1924.) There are many typical Palóc Settlements here and the Palóc people are the décisive ethnie group in this dialectal area. (The Palóc peoples live first of ail in the counties Nógrád, Heves and Borsod.) The investigation of the Palóc ethnicity began in the early 19* Century when (upon the call for an essay compétition) a Bénédictine monk of Esztergom, Fábián Szeder wrote and published the first paper about them in 1817. His book boosted ethnographie interest in this ethnicity, but music publication were still rare even in the late 19 й1 Century (just as about the rest of the region and other part of Europe). Béla Vikár's collecting trip also inclusive of this area at the end of the 19 й1 Century. The land of the Palóc people and whitin the given county has become an in exhaustible source of research for young Zoltán Kodály (first in 1906 in the village Zabar), Béla Bartók and from later for László Lajtha, Antal Molnár (1911), Benjamin Rajeczky (from the 1930ies until his died, 1989), Zoltán Pongrácz, Oszkár Dincsér, Ilona Borsai, Lajos Kiss, György Kerényi, János Manga, Bálint Sárosi, and many other researchers (among them herself the author who was born in this county).The most richest years were 1950-54, when many ethnomusicologist and music teachers as collectors had visited the différent villages in Nógrád county and many researchers have worked there because of recording music in original functions (in the last time before dying the traditions out). It is important that after 1937 somé villages of the county were represented in the Pátria authentic dise-record séries (published by Bartók, Lajtha and Kodály). It is also to note that somé folk songs were collected first here which are today bridely known from choir-compositions of Zoltán Kodály. 191
