MUSICAL ILLUSTRATIONS
Examples of Hungarian Music from the Time of the Great
Migrations to the Twentieth Century

SUBCHAPTERs

I. The Time of the Migration and Conquest
II. Encounter with the Melodic World of the Middle Ages in the West Gregorian Chant and Hungarian Musical Culture
III. Encounter with the Music of the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance
IV. The 16th Century. Appearance of Hungarian Art Music.
V. Instrumental Music
VI. The 17th Century The Culture of the Aristocratic Residences. Hungarian Baroque. Virginal Literature; Secular Lyrics and Dance Music
VII. Religious Folk Hymn and Sacred Music between 1650 and 1710
VIII. The Decline of Residential Culture Songs Produced by the ”Kuruc“ Movements
IX. Culture of the 18th Century Lesser Nobility Songs Originating in the Protestant Colleges; School Choir Exercises for One and More Voices. Popular and Western Trends; Hungarian Rococo
X. The “Verbunkos” The Appearance of the New Instrumental Style; its Origin and Development
XI. The “Verbunkos” at its Height; violin Virtuosi From Dance Music to the National Music Style
XII. Traces of the “Verbunkos” in Vienna Classical Literature
XIII. The “Verbunkos” as the Language of the Great Forms of Hungarian Romanticism. Late “Verbunkos” Style
XIV. The Flowering of the 19th Century Popular Art Song The Popular-romantic Play
XV. Hungarian Music of the 20th Century. Bartók and Kodály
Hungarian Music since 1945