Cseri Miklós, Kósa László, T. Bereczki Ibolya szerk.: Paraszti múlt és jelen az ezredfordulón - A Magyar Néprajzi Társaság 2000. október 10-12. között megrendezett néprajzi vándorgyűlésének előadásai (Szentendre: Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum; Magyar Néprajzi Társaság, 2000)

SIPOS János: Magyar népzenei kutatások a törökség között

Hungarian ethnomusicological research into the music of Turkic peoples JÁNOS SIPOS While the comparative linguistics of Turkic peoples has reached a high level of scholarship, comparative ethnomusicological research into the music of Turkic peoples lags way behind. No monographs indispensable for comparative analyses have been written, and attempts at tune systematization and comparative investigation are also often missing. This is in spite of the fact that the question whether the folk musics of different Turkic peoples and the Hungarians have features in common deserves general attention. Just as important it would be to establish what the possible coincidences can be attributed to. It is imperative for Hungarian ethnomusicology to get an insight into the old strata of Turkic folk musics, as it is known that some Turkic ethnic groups played a salient role in the emergence of the Hungarian ethnicity, Hungarian culture and folk music. It is no wonder then that Hungarian researchers have played a leading role in the comparative examination of Turkic and Hungarian folk musics. Béla BARTÓK inferred from a relatively small material some conclusions about the folk music of the Volga region and Anatolia with validity to our day, Zoltán KODÁLY extended the analogies by studying the folk music of Cheremis and Chuvash people. On the basis an immense collection from field-work among Cheremis, Chuvash, Mordvin, Tatar and Bashkir peoples, László VIKÁR described these musics. From a study of publications, Lajos Vargyas gave a historical outline of the folk music of the Volga region. Having studied an immense amount of material, Bence SZABOLCSI demonstrated even broader international musical connections. With a novel approach to the Hungarian material, László DOBSZAY and Janka SZENDREI have made an ethnomusicological study of the Hungarian lament and psalmodie styles in a broad international context. The six-year collecting work of János SIPOS in 1988-1993 in Anatolia as well as his study trips to Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan also fit into this range of work. All these are introduced shortly in this study, with some interesting musical examples.