Szerző: János Sipos L?Harmattan Kiadó, 2014 Research into the musics of eastern
ethnicities authenticated by on location collecting work has great traditions in
Hungary (suffice it to mention the name of Béla Bartók, László Vikár and János
Sipos). At the beginning, this work concentrated on the exploration of the
eastern elements in Hungarian folk music but it soon became areal through the
study of the folk music of the multi-ethnic Volga-Kama region. Before long,
Janos Sipos?s researches got enlarged into a comparative ethnomusicological
analysis of a vast Turkic-speaking territory. The research of the Turkic-tongued
area sheds light on a complex musical world, since the musics of these groups
can largely differ, and the musics are differently interrelated than the
languages. The present book is to be read in view of this broader frame, because
via the music of the Kyrgyz people the Kazakh folk music can be linked up with
the music of other Turkic and Mongolian people living more to the East. On the
other hand, the exploration of Kyrgyz music has a value of its own, as there are
very few analytic and comparative publications specifically highlighting it. The
brief introduction to Kyrgyzstan and to the Kyrgyz ethnogenesis is followed by
the description of the musical features of Kyrgyz folksongs, the classification
of Kyrgyz tunes and an anthology of 332 folksongs, the largest single collection
of Kyrgyz folksongs in print. The book contains the Kyrgyz song texts and their
English translation, and also a comparison of Anatolian, Azeri, Turkmen,
Karachay, Volga-region (Tatar, Bashkir, Chuvash) and Kazakh folk musics from a
bird?s-eye-view. All these are followed by maps and detailed indices of the
places of collection, singers, genres, song texts, musical forms, tonal ranges,
cadences, scales and rhythmic formulae. The volume ends with a rich
bibliography.