Kazakh folksongs from the two ends of the Steppe / János Sipos ; contributors, Dávid Somfai Kara and Éva Csáki ; English translation by Judit Pokoly.

Author/creator Sipos, János
Other author Somfai Kara, Dávid.
Other author Csáki, Éva.
Other author Pokoly, Judit, translator.
Format Book
Publication InfoBudapest : Akadémiai Kiadó, ©2001.
Description302 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm + 1 audio CD (4 3/4 in.).
Subjects
Folk music--Kazakhstan. --Hisory and criticism.
Kazakhs--Mongolia. --Music. --History and criticism.
Folk songs, Kazakh--History and criticism.
Folk songs, Kazakh--Mongolia.
Folk songs, Kazakh--Kazakhstan.
Folk songs, Kazakh--Texts.
Turkic peoples--Music.

Contents Hungarian ethnomusicological researches among Turkic peoples. Bela Bartok's collection in Anatolia in 1936 ; My collection in Anatolia in 1987-1993 ; Extending the research to Kazakh folk music -- A few words about the history of the Kazakh people -- Description of the collecting trips. Collecting trip to Mangkistaw in southwest Kazakhstan ; Collecting among the Kazakhs of Bayan Olgiy in Mongolia ; Collecting in a Mongolian Kazakh mining village: Nalayh -- Types of the southwestern Kazakh tunes. Abbreviations ; Genres ; Kazakh epic songs, the 'terme' types ; Lament style ; The 'psalmodic' style ; Small gamut song with ascending first line ; 'Melodious' tunes of a larger compass ; Unique but apparently authentic tunes ; Tunes of other nations -- Types of Mongolian Kazakh tunes. Descending first lines, laments ; 'Melodious' first lines ; First lines hopping on a tri- or tetrachord ; Unique tunes ; Fourth- and fifth-shifting -- Comparing the music of the two Kazakh areas. General musical features ; Lament tunes ; 'Melodious' melody progressions ; Recitative, oscillating melody progression ; Other lines moving along a tri- or tetraton -- Folksongs from Mangkistaw -- Mongolian Kazakh folksongs -- About the Kazakh texts -- Kazakh song-tests and their English translation.
Abstract The volume contains the transcriptions of 156 songs, including their detailed analyses, song texts in Kazakh with English translation, notes, indexes, bibliography, maps, several photographs and audio-CD with the most characteristic and beautiful musical examples.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and indexes.
ISBN9630577542 (hd.bd.)

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