Az MSU 1042 jelzetű forrás antifóna anyaga
Hungarian Antiphons Derived from the 17th Century Transylvanian Saxon Protestants

Summary/Abstract: While the Hungarian variation of the Gregorian chant perished as a result of the reforms of the Council of Trent (1545–1563), its new, strange life was begun by Hungarian Protestants. Hundreds of melodies were transposed into Hungarian texts, and these new, vernacular liturgical chants were set in books called graduals, which were used into the 17th century, and occasionally into the 19th century.The vernacular antiphon repertory of Lutheran and Calvinist sources is the largest corpus and the most interesting for scholarly study. There is an old, common Protestant heritage, which is related to the medieval Hungarian rite, but, at the same time, shows the individual characteristics of the different denominations.This article compares the Unitarian sources in Hungarian language with the material of the Saxon Unitarian source used in Kolozsvár, the Graduale oder Geistliche geseng vnnd Psalm sampt ihren Antiphonen vnnd Hymnen, 1622, Kolozsvár (Cluj, Klausenburg).

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