Tatar Folksongs

Initiated and commissioned by Zoltán Kodály, the first Hungarian music research in the original habitat of the Hungarians, a territory bounded by the rivers Volga, Kama and Belaya, began in 1957 and ended in 1979. All scientific disciplines register the Hungarians as "turkified" Finno-Ugrians. For this reason it is imperative for us to investigate both origins. Researchers have long been devoted signal attention to the similarities, or differences in the languages, and songs of the neighbouring Turkic and Finno-Ugrian peoples. Besides the previously published Cheremis, Chuvash and Votyak volumes, the Tatar Folksongs continues these former Volga-Kama musical monographies, but in actual fact, it is more: as the outcome of an extensive area research of a decade, it is a self-contained entity.

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