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The Csíki collection of Imets Dénes
The Csíki collection of Imets Dénes

Author(s): Zoltán Kiskamoni-Szalay
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: Folk music; customs; Csík; old folk songs; change

Summary/Abstract: This study presents the works of Imets Dénes (1929-2011), music teacher, folk music collector and playwright. His folk-music collecting activity took place between 1962 and 1972 in Csík. In his 1972 study he talks about his collecting activity of the previous decade. He recorded his collections. These contain more than 100 hours of music material. Except for one volume his entire collection is still unpublished, because under the communist system they were not allowed to be published. He called upon me in 2010 with the intention of publishing his collected material. He entrusted his manuscript to my care. This contains 278 tunes (One little bird, Csíki folk-song collection) (Egy kicsi madárka. Csíki népdalgyűjtés) , and unfortunately at the present time remains unpublished.

  • Issue Year: 9/2016
  • Issue No: 2-Suppl
  • Page Range: 177-182
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English