BENCE SZABOLCSI

A CONCISE HISTORY OF HUNGARIAN MUSIC




CONTENTS

      I. - Introduction. The Specific Conditions of Hungarian Musical Development
    II. - The Middle Ages. Church Music and Minstrel Music
    III - The Sixteenth Century. Historic Song and Chorals
    IV - The Seventeenth Century.
     V - The Eighteenth Century. Song and Choir Literature
   VI - The “Verbunkos”. The National Musical Style of the Nineteenth Century
  VII - Popular Song-writers. Erkel and the Romantic National Opera
VIII - The Instrumental Music of the Romantic Period. Liszt and Mosonyi: the Programme of Romanticism
   IX - Late Romanticism. The Transition Period. Western Reaction at the Turn of the Century
     X - New Hungarian Music
           Hungarian Music since 1945 by György Kroó

         MUSICAL ILLUSTRATIONS
         APPENDIX


CHAPTER ON MODERN MUSIC
BY
GYÖRGY KROÓ

CORVINA PRESS

Title of the Hungarian original
A MAGYAR ZENETÖRTÉNET KÉZIKÖNYVE
Zeneműkiadó, 1955
Hungarian edition © Bence Szabolcsi, 1955

Translated from the Hungarian by
SÁRA KARIG and FRED MACNICOL

Translation revised by
FLORENCE KNEPLER

Second, enlarged edition

© Mrs B. Szabolcsi, 1964
© György Kroó, 1974


© Bence Szabolcsi, 1955 - György Kroó, 1974 Library of Hungarian Studies