Piano Accompaniment;
Voice (Voice and Piano)
SKU: HL.50610141
Songs on Hungarian
Popular Words for Voice
and Piano. Composed
by Zoltan Kodaly. EMB.
Classical, Hungarian.
Softcover. 36 pages.
Editio Musica Budapest
#Z15155. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(HL.50610141).
Zoltan Kodaly's
op. 1, Enekszo (Singing),
this series of songs
written on Hungarian folk
poetry, first appeared in
1921 at Rozsavolgyi
Publishing House. On the
occasion of the 100th
anniversary of the first
edition, a facsimile
edition of the work and a
new edition with
Hungarian and English
texts has been published,
with great help of Mrs.
Kodaly nee Sarolta
Peczely. The series of
songs written between
1907 and 1909
simultaneously reflects
the composer's first
encounter with Hungarian
folk songs and Debussy's
song poetry. Kodaly, who
later composed numerous
arrangements of folk
songs for both solo voice
and choir, uses only the
texts of folk lyrics in
these songs, the melodic
world, although
reminiscent of Hungarian
folk songs in several
ways, stems from his own
melodic invention. And in
piano accompaniments, you
can feel the experimental
spirit and
atmosphere-creating power
of the young composer at
the same time.