Folk music retained ancient melodies X. century : Hungary became part of

Europe’s culture adopting foreign musical achievement

without rejecting our traditions Christianity : plainsong, Gregorian chant Secular music : we can rely only on written

references and contemporaneous folk music

Gregorian chants in two voices Matthias Corvinus : employed 40 singers;

this chorus rivalled that if the Holy See orBurgunoly in size and qualityof performance

OttomanTurkish occupationof Hungary:

-> Gregorian musical life ceasedin the central ages ( 1524-1686 )

-> Protestan reformers : translated liturgical songs

-> long chronicles about historical events and biblical parables

-> Transylvania formed the Eastern part of Hungary :

- cultivating Hungarian national consciousness

- foreign musicians eg.: Giovanni Battista Mosto : Madrigals of Alba Julia

Bakfark Bálint : contributed to making instrumental music

After Turkish dominance : absorbing the new European style baroque

Musicians from abroad Esterházi family : orchestra in Kismarton

conducted by Gregor Joseph Weined andJoseph Haydn

national consciousness

dance music called verbunkos

Egressy Béni : adopted it in his operas and songs

“Hungary image” in works by great Western composers (Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Weber, Berlioz, Brahms)

romantic period : new national music Erkel Ferenc : amalgamating verbunkos

and quality European music

Liszt Ferenc : uniting the European romanticism with Hungarian traditions

Béla Vikár: collecting folk songs Hungarian musical performing art had attained

international recognition Zoltán Kodály : - musicial education of people - collecting folk songs- incorporating them into school education - ‘‘Kodály method ‘‘ of teaching music(used abroad too) - choral peaces and two

oratorious

Béla Bartók: turned to the traditions of folk music

After the World War II. folksy comporitions

Ferenc Sebő and Béla Halmos : collecting traditional folk songs -> revival of Hungarian folk music and dancing -> dance house movement

Other bands : fame within and outside Hungary

Pop music : opporition to the ragulation

Rock operas and rock oratories