| Uniform title | Vissa︢t︣ekintbes. Selections. English |
| Contents |
On folk music. Hungarian folksongs (1906) -- The pentatonic scale in Hungarian folk music (1917-1929) -- Hungarian folk music (1925) -- What is Hungarian in music (1939) -- The role of the folksong in Russian and Hungarian music (1946) -- Children's games (1951) -- Calendar customs songs (1953) -- Wedding songs (1955) -- Pairing songs (1959) -- Message to the international folk music council's Quebec conference (1961) -- On predecessors and contemporaries. Claude Debussy (1918) -- Thirteen young Hungarian composers (1925) -- To Yehudi Menuhin's Budapest concerts (1946) -- On the anniversary of Beethoven's death (1952) -- In memory of Haydn (1959) -- Letter to Pablo Casals (1960) -- Bela Bartok's first opera (1918) -- Bela Bartok (1921) -- Bartok's compositions for children (1921) -- Bela Bartok the man (1946) -- Bartok the folklorist (1950) -- In memory of Bartok (1955) -- On Bela Bartok (1956) -- Opening address from the series of lectures held on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Bartok's birth (1961) -- Liszt and Bartok (1961) -- On music education. Children's choirs (1929) -- Music in the kindergarten (1941, 1957) -- Hungarian music education (1945) -- The national importance of the workers' chorus (1947) -- A hundred year plan (1947) -- After the first solfege competition (1949) -- Ancient traditions - today's musical life (1951) -- Who is a good musician? (1953-1954) -- Preface to the volume Musical Reading and Writing (1954) -- Introduction to the volume Musical Education in Hungary (1966) -- On himself and his works. Confession (1932) -- Bicinia Hungarica (1937) -- Let us sing correctly! (1952) -- Fifteen two-part exercises (1961) -- Pentatonic music (1947) -- Introduction to the performance of the "Peacock variations" (1950) -- 'I made my first instrument myself' (1950) -- Fifty-five two-part exercises (1954) -- A little biography (1966). |
| Abstract |
This volume is made up of studies and articles by Zoltan Kodaly, one of the greatest Hungarian composers and musicologists of the century: the instructor of a whole nation. In selecting the articles and studies the publishers have attempted to give as complete a picture as possible of Kodaly's many-sided activities, at the same time including pieces which are not merely of local interest in Hungary but which possess general validity. They also offer in one and the same volume a portrait of the well loved composer, the epoch-making musicologist and the influential music educationist. The writings have been grouped together with these four elements in mind. The first section contains pieces which concern folk music - Hungarian folk music naturally receiving the greatest attention. In the second there are essays showing the other side of Kodaly's musicological activities in which he writes about predecessors and contemporary composers. This includes a special group of studies concerning his great companion in arms, Bela Bartok. The third section of works in which he put his ideas on music education to paper: ideas which formed the basis for his fight for the reformation of music education in Hungary. The volume is rounded off by a few pieces where he speaks about himself and his own works. |
| General note | Selected from Visszatekintés. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 74190426 |
| ISBN | 0851620213 : |
