Paksa Katalin - Németh István: Muravidéki magyar népzene (Budapest - Lendva, 2018)
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52 MURAVIDÉK! MAGYAR NÉPZENE pentatonic character, the inner two lines are Mixolydian (173), the outer lines have a major scale, the inner lines a Mixolydian scale (171). Singers Recordings have been made with a total of 67 singers. Though collectors, as mentioned earlier, only worked in the Mura region from the 1960s, they met several aged singers who were young or infants in the 19th century (Mrs István Rozsmán, Sándor Gál, Katalin Gál, Lajos Tóth, József Both, Ferenc Bíró, Mrs Vendel Szarjas bőm Mária Németh). Outstanding among them with his performing style and rich repertoire is the mentioned Ferenc Bíró bom in 1894 and Mrs Vendel Szatjas bom in 1897. Ferenc Biro’s buoyant performance is characterized by dance-like pulsation and exuberant merriment (25, 39, 98, 106, 137, 138, 148, 162, 163, 171, 173, 195, 196). By contrast, Mrs Szaijas’ performance is intimate, reserved, the text strongly dialectal in pronunciation (103, 113, 120, 122, 134, 140, 150, 164, 172). No audio recording preserves the performance of Margit Farkas. Her archaic repertoire stood out among her peers (64, 67, 69, as well as note to 68 and 86). Mrs János Soós bom in 1905 sang three ballads (85, 86, 92) in addition to diverse occasional and new-style tune (24, 38, 48, 58, 105, 110, 123, 136, 147, 165). István Göncz bom in 1913 recalled a lot of songs and customs even at the age of 85, including St. Lucy’s day, beggar’s song, barker’s rhyme, ballad, soldier’s song (1, 59,60, 90, 183, 202). The large repertoire of Mrs József Gyurica bom in 1938 also includes most diverse genres (7, 9-11, 21, 32, 33, 68, 80, 87, 116, 119, 146, 187-189). Her clear, safe intonation made her fit for leading the singers at church in Alsólendva. Lajos Adóiján of her age only sang two songs, but he realized two utterly different characters perfectly: a pliant sensitive parlando-rubato outlaw’s ballad (88) and a vigorous dance character seasoned with tiny dynamic differences, subtle accents (52). Collectors normally seek out old or middle-aged informants because they are believed to know the tradition more profoundly. In the Mura region, however, sound recordings of customs involving schoolboys were also made. The customs of St. Gregory’s day and St. Lucy’s day were practised in function as well in the year of our fieldwork (2, 6, 24). The youngest informant of our monograph is Juliska Bácsi aged 8. She can be heard performing in flawless rhythm a new-style tune folklorised from a popular art song and she could cope well with the broad range of the tune (207). Her clearly articulated diction anticipates the hope that the next generation will also insist on their local dialect. Instrumental music The descriptions and drawings of toy instruments of children’s games were published by Ferenc Gönczi in the early 20th century (Gönczi 1914,548-550), but no instrumental
