Vajda József: Hallottad-e hírét Zalaegerszegnek? 333 zalai népdal - Zalai Gyűjtemény 10. (Zalaegerszeg, 1978)

Die Volksmusik des Komitats Zala (Zusammenfassung) - The volk-music of county Zala (Résumé)

of the dwellers of the tiny villages, many folk-customs accompanied by singing children's games and folk-songs were preserved for posterity. Our county is part of Transda^ubia, of the „music dialect territory No.1" as defined by Béla Bartók. Withiri this, it is characterized by the melodytreasure of the Southern part. I have grouped the songs figuring in the collection, on basis of the contents and mood of their words. Within this I have ranged them according to their musical peculiarities, on basis of Pál Járdányi's work „Types of Hungarian folk-songs". The following persons have enfolded important folk-song collecting activity in our county: Ádám Pálóczi Horváh, Ferenc Gönczi Béla Vikár, Vilmos Seemayer, Attila Péczely, Károly Horváth, and the writer of this digest. From among the folk-customs accompanied by singing those called „lucálás" and „.regölés" (sort of minstrelcy) are characteristically SouthTransdanubian. From among the songs of children's games the melodies which have a minstrelcy kernel are known only in Zala. Half of the 203 folk-songs figuring in the collection are of ancient style. Two third of these are typically South-Transdanubian. The majority of the new-type folk-songs in a Zala-variation of country-wide known songs. Customarly, usually these are sung. Which are the characteristics of the South-Transdanubian folk songs? First of all the variants of the „Fly, Peacock" (Röpülj, páva!), the so-called descending, one kernel fifth-changing melodies belong hereto, as well as other discending songs, or related type to the one-kernel songs. Characteristically South-Transdanubian are also the melodies beginning in the firth, fourth pitch and then descending from the octave sphere, as well as little folk-songs moving in the region of fifth- fourth, and repeating the first line. The publication contains several unique ancient folk-songs, too. Among the new style songs characteristic South-Transdanubian melodies are scarce. The most characteristic intonation peculiarity .pf the South-Transdanubian melody region is the so-called Transdanubian pentatónia (it raises the third and seventh grade of the ,,La" pentatonic scale by a semitone, they sing „Di" instead of „Do", and „Si", instead of „So"). As regards folk-music instruments, our county is poor. Very few people play already upon self-made flutes, shawms of birch-bark pipes. The zither and the jug-pipes have now a renascence.