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Béla Bartók. Autograph manuscript of 18 Hungarian folksong texts, some with musical annotations, 1918 or later, APPARENTLY UNRECORDED

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Béla Bartók

Autograph manuscript of 18 Hungarian folksong texts, SOME WITH RHYTHMIC AND MUSICAL ANNOTATIONS, APPARENTLY UNRECORDED


comprising written-out texts of the following folksongs:


1) Sárga csikó, csengő rajta

2) Ha felülök, Bözsikém, a fekete gőzösre

3) Icca te, de meguntam ezt az urat szolgáln

4) A csacsi nagyon szomjas volt

5) Mikor megy a 37-es a csatába

6) Nem járok én lagos szárú csizmába'

7) Csillagok, csillagok, szépen ragyogjatok

8) A csabai közkórhásban a vaságyon

9) A kertmegi laposon, laposon

10) Zúg az erdő, zörög a falevél

11) Ez a kislány, barna kislány kimegy az erdőbe

12) Sárga rigómadár, ne szállj fel a fára

13) Láttam, mikor leszállott a gólya

14) Megálljatok, megálljatok, kis kertmegi lányok

15) Réten, réten, sej, a kertmegi réten

16) Trieszt felől sebesülve jönnek a katonák

17) Hallottátok-e már hírül

18) Gyertek lányok ligetre, ligetre


4 pages, folio (c.34 x 21cm), ten of the folksongs with rhythmic values entered above some words or phrases, no.16 with an autograph bar of music underneath the second half of the last line, some pencil calculations to the first page, no place or date [1918, or later], light browning, slight splitting to central fold of one leaf, horizontal and vertical folds, two rusty paper-clip stains


AN UNRECORDED FOLKSONG MANUSCRIPT.


The folksongs here were evidently collected by Bartók in the summers of 1917 and 1918, when the composer was staying with his sister's family in Békés County in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. On these visits he did not have his usual collecting notebooks or phonograph with him, so it is probable that he simply entered the melodies on manuscript paper and the texts on separate pieces of paper (as apparently illustrated by the present manuscript).


PROVENANCE:

Formerly in the collection of the composer's son, Peter Bartók (1924-2020).