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Zoltán Kodály pointed out that in the absence of written records, the earliest period of Hungarys musical history, prior to the foundation of the Hungarian state, can be explored through the old Hungarian folk songs. A key element of his life's work was to return the cultural heritage preserved by the peasant and herding community to the public domain. An example of this also crops up in his mixed-choral work Mátra Pictures, for example in the traditional descending pentatonic song that begins with the words Vidróczky's famous flock. Inspired by this melody and lyric we set off to document, and present this sadly disappearing world, of which only a few representatives are still alive today. Will we be able to save, for posterity, examples of the culture in which Kodály, among the village-dwellers of Nógrád, Heves, Borsod and what used to be Gömör county [now the Gemer region of Slovakia] was able to immerse himself ? Will we succeed in recording a way of life that is slipping irretrievably into the past, preserving its memory for future generations through the medium of television, so that they can at least gain a glimpse of the former splendour?
In detail:
Children in Hungary are taught Zoltán Kodály's musical play Matra Pictures at school. Many are touched by the beauty of the old-fashioned tunes, and even sing the song beginning Vidrockys famous flock, but they are completely unfamiliar with the culture from which the melody and the lyric originated.
Today this tune, or to be more precise this family of tunes, has long been the subject of research by Hungarian musicologists. Previously, the descending pentatonic melodies were categorised among the oldest forms of Hungarian music, and based on comparative data from the Mari, Mordvinic, Tatare etc. cultures, their origins have been dated at thousands of years ago. According to a handful of more recent studies, this family of melodies probably gained popularity among the Hungarians only some 1,500 years ago, and could have been influenced by the pentatonic musical culture of the Turkish peoples. At any event, this family of melodies, which is represented by several thousand recordings, in hundreds of variants, archived by the Institute of Musical Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, can still be regarded as uniquely Hungarian, and until very recently was extremely popular among rural inhabitants, especially herders.
The lyrical variations associated with the tunes are widely varied, as beyond the classic folk songs containing classic images of nature, the works of reform-era poets, and folklore ballads have also been sung to these melodies, in such diversity that in the words of one collector it would take days just to read them out.
Márton Vidróczky (1837-1873) was born in Mónosbél in Heves county, between the Bükk and Mátra mountain ranges. Originally a shepherd, after the failure of Hungarys uprising against Austrian rule, he became a fugitive and an outlaw. He mainly sought refuge in the forests of the Mátra and Bükk mountains, and folk legend portrays him as a just, free man who defended the poor and was above the law, or rather was a law unto himself, but was also famous for his good looks, amorous affairs and revelling.
Zoltán Kodály, the famed composer and ethnomusicologist, was obviously inspired by the combination of an old melody and the stories of the characterful Vidróczky, and incorporated a version of the folk song into his mixed-choral work entitled Mátra Pictures (1930).
Is it possible to understand Kodálys art, or even the beauty of the folk song, without any understanding of the original community that nurtured them for so long? In our opinion it is not, which is why we are embarking on a voyage of discovery in the Bükk and Mátra region.
We plan to record local village-dwellers telling and singing true stories of Vidróczky, and showing us around beautiful locations such as the cave that once served as a hideout for the famous outlaw. We would like to introduce viewers to authentic local characters, such as Sándor, who lives in Lénárddaróc in the North Bükk region, and whose father's music was collected by Kodály himself in the course of his research. We hope that one day we will be able to record on film moments as special as the time we were lucky enough, at a shepherds gathering on the Hortobágy plain, to see and hear Sándor joining in with the band to sing, in the true original style, his father's favourite song: Vidróczkys Famous Flock.
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