Folk hymns collected by Kodály in the Székely land and Bukovina
Folk hymns collected by Kodály in the Székely land and Bukovina

Summary/Abstract: Zoltán Kodály collected in the Székely land, in Csík county (the districts of Gyergyó and Kászon) in 1910 and 1912, and in Bukovina in 1914. Fourty-one tunes (in 50 variants), folk hymns and songs used in religious folk customs and 2 tunes played on the flute in the Bukovinan Nativity play can be found among the 650 tunes he collected during these journeys. Among the 41 songs, 12 are related to Christmas, 1 to Lent, 1 to Easter, 10 are about the Virgin and Jesus, 10 are funeral laments, 2 are Saint Peter’s laments, 3 are about the Wedding at Cana and 2 are miscellaneous religious songs. Among the 530 intact phonograph cylinders Kodály recorded 75 come from Bukovina (8 of them containing religious songs) and 73 from Csík county (7 of them containing folk hymns). 7 phonograph recordings from Kodály’s folk hymn collection are available to anyone.

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