Kodály: Choral Works for Male Voices

Description

• Composer: Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
• Editor: Péter Erdei
• Instrumentation: Male Choir
• Binding:
• Work Language: Hungarian
• ISMN: 9790080067260
• Pages: 152

Description

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY (1882-1967) created a significant oeuvre equally as a composer, pedagogue, and ethnomusicologist; he was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Hungarian music. with his over 130 works for unaccompanied choir he laid the foundation of modern Hungarian choral literature.

A complete collection of Kodály’s choral works is available in three volumes:

Choral Works for Children’s and Female Voices (EMB6724)

Choral Works for Mixed Voices (EMB6725)

Choral Works for Male Voices (EMB6726)

This volume of works for male voices is an extended and revised edition. Containing a total of 30 compositions, six of which have never before appeared in previous collections, it is the most complete and most authentic edition of Kodály’s choral works for male voices to be published thus far. It has been edited based on uniform principles, contains easy-to-read, first-rate musical scores, and includes an informative Epilogue.

Contents:

• Epigraph
• The Watchman of Nándor
• in András Fáy’s Album
• On the Changes in France
• Justum et tenacem – Resolutely
• Hymn to King Stephen (Bozóky hymn book, 1797)
• The Peacock
• The Ruins
• Drinking Song
• Come, Little Girl
• Hey, Bandi Büngözsdi
• The Son of an Enslaved Country
• Life or Death
• National Song
• God’s Mercy
• Drinking Fellow (Text by an anonymous seventeenth-century author)
• Gesang der Ungarn
• Spread Your Wings
• The Filly
• Evening Song
• Mrs Puci
• Soldier’s Song
• The Bachelor
• Songs from Karád
• Canticum nuptiale – Wedding Song
• The Voice of Jesus -Stabat Mater
• Do Not Grieve (Song by András Horvát Szkhárosi with melody of the time)
• La Marseillaise
• Song of Faith