FTX-642 - HUNGARIAN & GYPSY FOLK MUSIC & CUSTOMS - 2 of 2

1. Tunes performed by a Tambura Band from the Southern Great Plain
- 1’56”

2. Old-style parlando & new-style giusto on hurdy-gurdy as previous
- 2’25”

3. Four dance tunes by fiddler (67) from Borsod - 2’34”

4. Slow dance by Csango singing long-flute player (53) from Gyimes
- 1’43”

5. As #2 played on zither or cimbalon using the fingers - 3’17”

6. Love Song sung and played on long flute from Somogy - 2’42”

7. Slow & Fast Csardas by Csango fiddle & gardon from Gyimes - 2’51”

8. Czardas and “Quick” by Gypsy Band from Mezoseg - 2’30”

9. “There the swineherd walks by the bank” song tune on bagpipes from
Nograd - 1’29”

10. Tune on shawm or reed-pipe accomp by zither from the Southern
Great Plain - 1’05”

11. Two dance tunes by zither ensemble as previous - 2’45”

12. Nograd Christmas pipe tunes (a) “The black hen's eaten all the
sour cherries”; (b) “It’s not advisable to lie on the banks of the
Tisza”; (c) “Johnny, Johnny, you come first” - 3’57”

13. Quick Czardas (Slow omitted) by gypsy band from Mezoseg - 2’32”

14. Two new-style tunes on hurdy-gurdy & clarinet from the Southern
Great Plain - 2’02”

15. “Fly my swallow” by gypsy musicians on cimbalom from Borsod -
3’36”

16. Nograd Christmas pipe-tunes (a) “At Christmas Night”; (b) “Do
go, Eve, up to the loft”; (c) “Johnny, Johnny, you come first” - 1’51”

17. Christmas “Pretty cradle” chanting from Sopron (a) “In the little
village of Bethlehem”; (b) “In the city of Bethlehem”; (c) "Bethlehem,
Bethlehem”; (d) “God’s lamb is crying”; (e) “Let’s go, all of us”
- 3’05”

18. Carnival chant from Zobor: “Let’s come, Sardo” - 0’30”

19. Farewell Song to Carnival from Zobor “Talalaj, talalaj, Lorinc
Tot” - 1’10”

20. “Bridge” custom from the Balaton “Green twig walk” - 2’57”

21. Whitsun Play Songs from Sopron: (a) “The remarkable day of Whitsun”; (b) “Hyacinth, hyacinth”; “God’s brought a crimson Whitsun day” - 2’12”

22. Summer Solstice songs from Zobor: (a) “Whose horses are down there?”; (b) “Rattling walnut, hazelnut” (Cumulative song) - 0’53”

23. Names Day Song from Transylvania: (a) “Many happy returns of Susanna’s day” (b) (speech omitted); (c) fiddle & cello- 4’03”

24. Greetings song & dance on St Stephen’s Day from the Mezoseg “We make ourselves presents here” - 2’35”

25. Csango Lullaby “Hejde lilibe” from Gyimes - 1’13”

26. Recruited Soldier’s Farewell Song from the Mezoseg: (a) ”I owe
it to my mother” (b) Fast Dance Tune by Gypsy band (Slow omitted)
- 2’59”

27. Wedding songs from Somogy: (a) “Put the packing-case on the cart”; (b) “Late in the evening I was strolling”; (c) “They’ve already bound my wreath” - 2’25”

28. Bride’s valediction & farewell from Nograd: (a) “Alas, my head-dress”; (b) “I have bound three wreaths” (c) “The first flower”; (d) “Alas, friend, Nani”; (e) “Weep, weep, beautiful maiden flower”; (f) “Daughter, daughter” - 5’42”

29. Wedding tunes with orchestra from the Mezoseg: (a) “The bride
is a most beautiful flower”; (b) “The cart is standing at the gate”
- 2’42”

30. Funeral lament from Gyimes - 2’47”

31. Lament with fiddlers from Gyimes - 1’55”
Total 76'23"

Dedicated to Bela Bartok & Zoltan Kodaly. Edited by Benjamin
Rajeczky from the collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
& Ethnographic Museum in co-operation with the Hungarian National
Commission for the 1964 Conference of The International Folk Music
Council (Secretary: Dr Maud Karpeles). First published on Folktrax
Cassettes 1977. Remastered to CD by Peter Kennedy, 2001.