Gyökerek • A Dráva Múzeum tanulmánykötete, 2006

Vass Oszkár: A somogyi csárdás és történeti rétegei

Vass Oszkár: A somogyi csárdás és történeti rétegei OSZKÁR VASS THE 'CSÁRDÁS' DANCE IN SOMOGY COUNTY AND ITS HISTORICAL LAYERS SUMMARY The author introduces a new-styled dance the csardas in Somogy county for us after the swine-herd's dance and the recruiting dance which developed from this. In Hungary the varities of the csardas dance in Southern Transdanubia (South-Western-Hungary) are mainly stressed below. Two different important main parts are connected together the slow and the "fresh" (=fast) csardas. The csardas of thisTransdanubian area differs from the similar dances of the area of the river Tisza or Transsylvania. The main characteristics of the slower type is the thinned, simplified dance figures, the "fresh" or faster type the richer had "libbenős, kopogós" figures. Some parts of the slower csardas refer to the older style of the dance layer. Some other motives and the its tune shows connections with new-styled recruiting dance. In some parts of Somogy county another type of slowe csardas is still can be found, this is the ",s'eVá/ás"(=walking). The circle version of this dance can be connected to dances of Middle Ages, which were danced in a similar way. Sometimes in pairs holding hands or waist in marching. The surviving of the Medieval tradition is proved by civil dances which can be found in the whole part of the Hungarian language area. To the older marching form in the 15. and 16. centuries another type was added a paired turning shape. These summary of these elements formed the new-styled Hungarian csardas dance. The old layer of the csardas tradition can be found only in fragments nowadays in the present-day Hungary - for example in Somogy county. The old style was pushed out by the new style. The roots of the new style can be found in the recruiting dance, which developed at the end of 18th century. The recruiting dance reached only some part of the Southern Transdanubia (for example: Sárköz in Tolna county), but could not reached several regions (for example the villages of Somogy). In our region the slower csardas adopted the position and the function of recruiting dance but the "fresh" csardas lived on with an another accompaniment and motive set. 173