About a third of Béla Bartók’s compositions are folk music arrangements. Bartók chose the material for arrangement predominantly from his own collection made up of about ten thousand folk melodies of different nationalities. Thanks to the so-called Lampert-Catalog, a source catalog of the folk melodies used by Bartók in his works, we now know precisely which are these melodies.^[1] The new database of the Budapest Bartók Archives makes available – to the extent possible – the complete source material of these folk melodies. Thus, besides the phonograph recordings of inestimable value that were published earlier, several manuscript transcriptions of the melodies have also become available for study.

How did Bartók transcribe the melody during the collecting trip? What remarks did he attach to it? Or, how did he refine his early transcriptions over and over, at times after several decades, in order to fix as accurately as possible the “snapshot” of a given performance of the folk melody, by nature in continual transformation? Associate editor of the database, Viola Biró, research fellow of the Institute for Musicology of the RCH informs about this new project.

Registers of Philosophy 2020/1. Csaba Olay: Comments on Sharon Rider's Paper

Registers of Philosophy 2020/2. Günter Figal: Description and Conceptuality

Registers of Philosophy 2020/3. István M. Fehér: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Ontology

Bringing down the Iron Curtain: Paradigmatic changes in research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe? presents the researches of scholars of different generations from twelve countries (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Canada, Austria) who participated in a session of the same title at the 20th Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Istanbul, 2014. The papers addressed the question of change in the approaches to Bronze Age research in the Central and Eastern European countries from different points of view.

Zsuzsa Czagány : Antiphonale Varadinense s. XV.

Musicalia Danubiana 26/1-3, red. Gabriella Gilányi and Gábriel Szoliva. Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Musicology, 2019

A facsimile edition of the monumental codex of the medieval Várad Cathedral with critical commentaries and essays in three volumes, in Hungarian and English: 

• Vol. I Proprium de tempore. Index cantuum cum apparatu critico
• Vol. II Proprium de sanctis et commune sanctorum. Index cantuum cum apparatu critico
• Vol. III. Essays

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