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Szászcsávás Band

Szászcsávás Band 3

(SZASZ3)

"Szaszcsavas is a small village located in the Kis-Kukullo River valley of Transylvania, in Romania. The majority of the village's 900 inhabitants are Hungarians, with 20% Gypsies. This CD presents selections from the traditional repertoire of this village's Gypsy musicians. Szászcsávás holds a unique place in Hungarian music history. Whereas Hungarian folk singing is always in unison, this is perhaps the only village where polyphonic singing is found. It is a folklorized form of the polyphonic religious singing style which was introduced by protestant theologians at the end of the eighteenth century, upon returning from university in western Europe. According to the researchers, the Szászcsávás' choral tradition can he traced back to the Basel school, on the basis of the number of parts and elements of composition. An active five part chorus still exists in the village today.  Every Hungarian sings; the parts are passed down through the family, from father to son. In addition to performances by the chorus, the people of the  village sing in parts during church services, at weddings, at halls and other gatherings. At such celebrations, older popular Hungarian art songs generally dominate, but other popular folksy-songs (known in Hungarian as nota), traditional folk songs and the traditional songs which accompany dancing are also sung in parts.

Traditionally in Transylvania, the Gypsies - and before WW II also the Jews - played the instrumental music at weddings and other celebrations. For many generations the Gypsy musicians from Szászcsává have been famous throughout the region. Though they are not members of the choir, they know the songs and the style of singing. The people of Szászcsávás are a more musically demanding audience than the average, who don't tolerate weak musicians. The Gypsies live on a street on the edge of what is by Transylvanian standards a fairly well off village. They make their living by doing seasonal agricultural work and making bricks."

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Szászcsávás Band

Szászcsávás Band 3

(SZASZ3)

This symbol  indicates an mp3 sound clip for that track. Click on the symbol and wait for the clip to start. For more information click here. Tracks

1. Csaras es szoko - couple dance (3'10")

2. A Ven Kranci verbunkja - the Ven Kranci's verbunk (3'12")

3. Szekely verbunk - Hungarian men's dance (7'20")

4. Enekelt asztali es csardas - Hungarian table song and csardas (8'14")

5. Felolahos - Hungarian couple dance (4'22")

6. Cigany asztali hallgato - Gypsy table music (6'31")

7. Cigany csardas es szoko - Gypsy couple dance (4'48")

8. 'Gyertek fiuk, menjunk a kocsmaba' - 'Come on guys, lets go to the pub' (2'16")

9. Mahala (popular new dance of Turkish origin) (3'41")

10. Cigany csardas es szoko 'szajbol - scat csardas and szoko (1'51")

11. Roman hallgato - Romanian doina (3'48")

12. De-a-purtat, ceardas, hartag - Romanian couple dance (7'33")

13. Enekelt cigany csardas - sung Gypsy slow csardas (2'45")

14. Kemenynagyszollosi csardasok - Csardas's from Kemenynagyszollos (3'21")

15. Cigany szoko - Gypsy szoko (3'05")

16. Rakoczi-indulo - Rakoczi March (1'49")

Duration (67'52")

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