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A Finno-Ugric Flute Type?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Ernst Emsheimer
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One of the most pressing demands of current Hungarian folk music research is to single out those precise elements in the traditions of Hungarian folk music which can be proved to be archaic residues of an early culture of Finno-Ugric origin. Under the inspiration of the labours of Bartók and Kodály this goal was attacked with enthusiasm as much as with methodical reflection. The methods of investigation which have been applied and also the results of the research attained thus far could arouse objection at many points. On the other hand, there can be no doubt about the justification of formulating the question as such.

Following the model of linguistic science, Hungarian folk music research has used above all comparative as well as historical methods. Through close study of recent collections of melodies recorded from Finno-Ugric peoples living far apart from each other, pains have been taken to establish stylistic coincidence or relationships which justify the tracing back of certain melodic structures and style complexes to Finno-Ugric roots.

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Journal of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 18 , 1966 , pp. 29 - 35
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Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1966

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This article first appeared in German as “Ein finno-ugrischer Flôtentypus” in Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Volkskunde und Literaturforschung (Festschrift für W. Steinitz), Berlin, 1965. For the present publication it has been revised by the author and translated by Dr. Barbara Krader.

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