Azeri folksongs; at the fountain-head of music. (CD included).M1627 963-05-8105-1 Azeri folksongs; at the fountain-head of music. (CD included) Sipos, Janos. Trans. by Judith Pokoly. Akademiai Kiado, [c]2004 624 p. $98.00 Musicologists A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. An ethnomusicologist is someone who studies ethnomusicology; a zoomusicologist is someone who studies zoomusicology. and ethnologists as well as those interested in folk music folk music: see folk song. folk music Music held to be typical of a nation or ethnic group, known to all segments of its society, and preserved usually by oral tradition. Knowledge of the history and development of folk music is largely conjectural. will find much of interest in this ambitious study of the folk songs folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in recent studies. of the people of Azerbaijan. Based on research carried out in the area beginning in 1987, Sipos (his affiliation is not noted) has set down the melodies and words (in English and Hungarian translation) of over 300 songs collected from people in the areas around Baku, Shamakhy, Quba, Zagatala, and refugees from Karabakh. Extensive discussion is included of the musical forms of the songs, including comparative forms among Anatolian Turks and Hungarians. The CD contains 60 songs. Distributed in the US by ISBS ISBS International Society of Biomechanics in Sports ISBS International Society for Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin ISBS Illinois State Button Society ISBS Iowa State Button Society ISBS Idaho State Button Society . |
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