KF

Kodály fonográfhengerek: phonograph cylinders containing Hungarian folk music, collected by Zoltán Kodály between 1906 and 1936; around 500 items, the greater part housed at the Kodály Zoltán Archives, Budapest, and the smaller part housed in the Budapest Museum of Ethnography

MH

Múzeumi hengerek: collection of phonograph cylinders containing folk music of different ethnic groups, collected by several folklorists between 1896 and 1949; around 4500 items, housed in the Budapest Museum of Ethnography (copy at the Folk Music Archives of the Institute for Musicology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, and BBA). The digitized recordings are available online at the website of the Budapest Museum of Ethnography: https://collection.neprajz.hu/neprajz.06.12.php?bm=1

TF

Tót fonográfhengerek: phonograph cylinders containing Slovak folk music collected by Bartók between 1906 and 1918; around 230 items, housed at the Literary Archives of the Slovak National Library, Martin, shelf mark A XXI. The digitized recordings are available on the CD supplement of SLP/IV

Bartók System

A collection of master sheets of transcriptions of all Hungarian folk songs collected up to1938, classified and organized by Bartók between 1934 and 1940 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; around 14,000 items, housed at the Folk Music Archives of the Institute for Musicology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities. All master sheets are available in facsimile, together with the corresponding phonograph recordings, in Béla Bartók, Hungarian Folk Songs: Complete Collection, ed. István Pávai and Pál Richter, 2nd rev. digital ed. ©2017, http://systems.zti.hu/br/en. Published partially as HFSCC/I and MNEGy/I–II

BPF

“Budapest fasciculi”: Bundles of large-format music paper, mainly bifolios, forming gatherings and containing transcriptions of folk music from phonograph cylinders, archivist’s foliation, fol. 1–178; GV, no BH shelf number but listed under catalog number I/97 (photocopy in BBA). On the cover: “Első lejegyzések fonográfról” [First notations from the phonograph], comprising five large units: (a) Hungarian folk songs and popular songs; (b) mainly Romanian and Arab folk music; (c) “I. füzet” [volume I], mainly Romanian folk music but also including Ruthenian (i.e., Ukrainian) and Hungarian; (d) large folios and bifolios numbered I–VII containing Hungarian folk songs mainly copied from published collections; (e) folios and bifolios containing Hungarian folk songs copied from published collections.

BPFadd

One folio of large-format music paper, containing early folk song notations from 1904, once part of BPF, unit (d), now pp. 6–7 among miscellaneous folk music transcriptions numbered pp. 1–15, PSS SBB, Misc.

BSC

Bartók’s Slovak collection: a complete set of MS master sheets of transcriptions of Slovak folk music collected by Bartók between 1906 and 1918, including revised transcriptions from the 1930s of selected recordings; around 3250 items; PSS SBB, without shelf mark (photocopy in BBA). Published as SLP/I–III.

Col. I–IV

A complete set of MS master sheets of Bartók’s Romanian colindă collection, four volumes bound in red leather, classified as types 1–133, also including 31 discarded master sheets, with Bartók’s later revisions of the transcriptions; 519 folios; GV, BH I/201–204 (photocopy in BBA). Published as Colinde.

Kodály System

A collection of master sheets of transcriptions of Hungarian folk songs, classified and organized according to principles devised by Kodály; around 33,000 items, housed at the Folk Music Archives of the Institute for Musicology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities. All master sheets are available in facsimile in: Kodály-rend: Kodály népzenei gyűjtésekből és történeti forrásokból létrehozott kéziratos dallamgyűjteménye [Kodály System: Manuscript collection compiled by Kodály from collected folk melodies and historical sources], ed. Olga Szalay ©2013, http://db.zti.hu/kr/kr.asp, and Kodály-rend: Kodály Zoltán kéziratos dallamgyűjteménye (1905–1958) [Kodály System: Manuscript melody collection of Zoltán Kodály], ed. Mátyás Bolya ©2018, https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/collection/mta_btk_zti_KodalyRend/

Mar. I–IV

A complete set of master sheets of Bartók’s Romanian collection from Maramureș county, four volumes bound in red leather, classified as types 1–209, also including 4 unclassified examples; 341 folios; GV, BH I/194a–d (photocopy in BBA). Published as Maramureș.

ML

A music notebook used by Bartók on his folk music collecting trips in 1906, 1917, and 1918, containing Hungarian folk music; 70 pages, housed at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, call number: Cary 736.

MMS

Museum master sheets: a collection of master sheets of transcriptions of folk music of mixed origin, organized according to the catalog number of the phonograph cylinders; around 13,650 items, housed in the Budapest Museum of Ethnography. The master sheets of Bartók’s Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, and Turkish collection are available in facsimile in: Bartók Béla gyűjtései a Néprajzi Múzeumban [Béla Bartók’s records in the Museum of Ethnography], ed. Krisztina Pálóczy, ©2016, http://bartok.neprajz.hu/neprajz.start.php.

MS field books

Sixteen music notebooks used by Bartók on his folk music collecting trips, bound in red leather, containing 45 to 50 sheets, with Bartók’s original pagination or archivist’s foliation. Their numbering originates partly from Bartók, reflecting to certain extent their content: M.I to M.VI contain mostly Hungarian (magyar), R.I and R.II contain mostly Romanian, and T.I to T.III contain mostly Slovak (tót) folk music. The rest contain material of mixed origin. They are kept under the following shelf marks:

M.I to M.V: GV, BH I/95 to I/99

M.VI: GV, BH I/111

R.I and R.II: GV, BH I/101 and I/102

T.I and T.II: GV, BH I/105 and I/106

T.III: GV, BH I/110

IV and V: GV, BH I/103 and I/104

VI and VII: GV, BH I/107 and I/108

VIII: GV, BH I/112

R.Instr. I–VII

A complete set of master sheets of Bartók’s collection of Romanian instrumental folk music, bound in seven volumes, with Bartók’s later revisions of the transcriptions; 1264 folios; GV, BH I/167–191 (photocopy in BBA); preparatory material for Bartók’s Rumanian Folk Music vol. I. Class A melodies (types 1–542 in the published volume) are classified here according to dance genres as types 1–589. Published as RFM/I.

RMS

Romanian master sheets: a series of early master sheets (1909–1911) from Bartók’s Romanian collection, archivist’s foliation 1–678; Kodály Zoltán Archives, Budapest, shelf mark N–60

RuMS

Ruthenian master sheets: a complete set of MS master sheets of transcriptions of Ruthenian (i.e. Transcarpathian Ukrainian) folk music collected by Bartók in 1911; 80 folios; PSS SBB, 105–Ruth (photocopy in BBA)

R.Vok. I–VIII

A complete set of master sheets of transcriptions of Romanian vocal folk music collected by Bartók between 1909 and 1918, including revised transcriptions from the 1930s; around 1400 items, bound in eight volumes in red leather; GV, BH I/144–166 (photocopy in BBA). Published as RFM/II.

SMS I–II

Slovak master sheets: two series of early master sheets from Bartók’s Slovak collection, consisting of 169 folios of unordered carbon copies and 57 folios of original master sheets with revisions in red pencil (from around 1910); GV, without shelf mark but listed under catalog numbers I/141 and 141a (photocopy in BBA)

Text-collecting notebooks

Notebooks, of varying extent, bound in red leather, with Hungarian, Romanian, and Slovak folk texts; GV, BH I/115–128 (photocopy in BBA). Hungarian texts can be found in vols. 2–4, 7, and 13, Romanian ones in vols. 1–8 and 13, Slovak ones in vols. 4, 5, and 7–14.

ZTI MS

A collection of MS master sheets of transcriptions of Hungarian folk music collected by members of the Folk Music Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between the 1950s and 1990s; around 180,000 items, housed at the Folk Music Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Musicology, HUN-REN Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest. All master sheets are available in facsimile, together with the corresponding magnetic tape recordings, in: https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/collection/mta_btk_zti_AP/

Bárd/I

Legszebb 101 magyar népdal, ének és zongorára czigányos modorban, átírta Palotásy Gyula [The Most Beautiful 101 Hungarian Folk Songs, for voice and piano in Gypsy manner, arranged by Gyula Palotásy], vol. 1, Budapest: Bárd Ferenc és Társa, [s.a.]

Bartalus/I–VII

István Bartalus, Magyar népdalok: Egyetemes gyűjtemény [Hungarian Folk Songs: Complete Collection], 7 vols. Budapest: Pesti Könyvnyomda, 1873–1896.

Bihor

Béla Bartók, Cântece poporale românești din comitatul Bihor / Chansons populaires roumaines du département Bihar (Hongrie). Bucureşti: Librăriile Socec & Comp. și Sfetea, 1913. Facsimile reprint of Bartók’s annotated copy: Béla Bartók, Ethnomusikologische Schriften, vol. III, ed. Denijs Dille. Budapest: Editio Musica, 1967.

Chiuituri

Ion Pop Reteganul, Cine nu ştie striga, cetească cartea asta, adecă: Chiuituri de care strigă feciorii în joc [Whoever does not know to shout should read this book, or: Dance words that lads are shouting at the dance]. Gherla: Tipografia Aurora, 4th edition, 1910.

Colinde

Béla Bartók, Melodien der Rumänischen Colinde (Weihnachtstlieder). Wien: Universal Edition, 1935. Facsimile reprint (with a supplement of the song texts): Béla Bartók, Ethnomusikologische Schriften, vol. IV, ed. Denijs Dille, Budapest: Editio Musica, 1968. In English: Béla Bartók, Rumanian Folk Music, vol. IV: Carols and Christmas Songs (Colinde), ed. Benjamin Suchoff. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975.

EMN

Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, Erdélyi magyarság: Népdalok [Transylvanian Hungarians: Folk Songs]. Budapest: Rózsavölgyi és Társa, [1923].

HFM

Béla Bartók, Hungarian Folk Music, trans. Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi. London: Oxford University Press, 1931. More recent editions: The Hungarian Folk Song, ed. Benjamin Suchoff. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981; The Hungarian Folk Song, ed. Peter Bartók. Homosassa, Florida: Bartók Records, 2002. – First edition in Hungarian: A magyar népdal. Budapest: Rózsavölgyi és Társa, 1924. Most recent edition: Bartók Béla írásai [Béla Bartók Writings], vol. 5, ed. Dorrit Révész. Budapest: Editio Musica, 1990. – First edition in German: Das ungarische Volkslied: Versuch einer Systematisierung der ungarischen Bauernmelodien, Ungarische Bibliothek für das Ungarische Institut an der Universität Berlin, Erste Reihe, vol. 11. Berlin and Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1925. Reprinted as Béla Bartók, Ethnomusikologische Schriften, vol. I, ed. Denijs Dille. Budapest: Editio Musica, 1965.

HFSCC/I

Hungarian Folk Songs: Complete Collection, compiled by Béla Bartók, ed. Sándor Kovács and Ferenc Sebő, vol. I (Class AI, Nos 1–416). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1993. In Hungarian: MNEGy/I.

Kiss

Magyar gyermekjáték-gyűjtemény [Collection of Hungarian Children’s Games], ed. Áron Kiss. Budapest: Hornyánszky, 1891.

Kún/I

A magyar dal: Ezer magyar népdal, összegyűjtötte, kiválogatta, zongorára és énekhangra harmonizálta Kún László [Hungarian Song: A Thousand Hungarian Folk Songs, collected, selected, arranged for piano and voice by László Kún], vol. I. Budapest: Könyves Kálmán Magyar Műkiadó R.T., [1906].

Limbay

Magyar Dal-Album. A magyar nép dallamainak egyetemes gyűjteménye, gyűjti és szerkeszti Limbay Elemér [Album of Hungarian Songs. Complete Collection of the Melodies of the Hungarian People, collected and edited by Elemér Limbay], 6 vols., Győr: Hennicke Rezső, [1879–1885].

Maramureş

Béla Bartók, Volksmusik der Rumänen von Maramureș, Sammelbände für Vergleichende Musikwissenschaft, vol. IV. Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1923. Facsimile reprint: Béla Bartók, Ethnomusikologische Schriften II, ed. Denijs Dille. Budapest: Editio Musica, 1966. In English: Béla Bartók, Rumanian Folk Music, vol. V: Maramureș County, ed. Benjamin Suchoff. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975.

Medveczký

Detva: Monografia, spisal Karol A. Medvecký. Detva: Tlačou Kníhtlačiarne Karla Salvu v Ružomberku, 1905

MNEGy/I–II

Magyar Népdalok: Egyetemes Gyűjtemény [Hungarian Folk Songs: Complete Collection], compiled by Béla Bartók, ed. Sándor Kovács and Ferenc Sebő, vols. I and II (Class AI, Nos 1–416 and 417–906). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1991 and 2007.

MNGy/IV

Regös-énekek [Regös Songs], collected by Dr. Gyula Sebestyén, Magyar Népköltési Gyűjtemény [Collection of Hungarian Folk Poetry], vol. IV, Zenei mellékletek [Music Supplements]. Budapest: Athenaeum, 1902.

MNT/I

A Magyar Népzene Tára / Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungaricae, vol. I: Gyermekjátékok [Children’s Games], ed. György Kerényi. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2nd ed. 1957.

MNT/III/A, B

A Magyar Népzene Tára / Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungaricae, vol. III/A and B: Lakodalmas [Wedding Songs], ed. Lajos Kiss. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1955, 1956.

MNT/IV

A Magyar Népzene Tára / Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungaricae, vol. IV: Párosítók [Pairing Songs], ed. György Kerényi. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959.

MNT/VI

A Magyar Népzene Tára / Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungaricae, vol. VI: Népdaltípusok [Folksong Types] 1, ed. Pál Járdányi and Imre Olsvai. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1973.

Pálóczi

Ötödfélszáz énekek (Pálóczi Horváth Ádám dalgyűjteménye 1813-ból) [450 Songs: Ádám Pálóczi Horváth’s Collection of Songs, 1813], ed. Dénes Bartha and József Kiss. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1953.

RFM/I–III

Béla Bartók, Rumanian Folk Music, vol. I: Instrumental Melodies, vol. II: Vocal Melodies, vol. III: Texts, ed. Benjamin Suchoff. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1967.

Schneider-Trnavský/II

Sbierka slovenských ľudových piesní pre stredný hlas a klavírový sprievod [Collection of Slovak Folk Songs for Middle Voice with Piano Accompaniment], vol. II, arranged by Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský. Turč. Sv. Martin: Tlačou Knihtlačiarskeho účastináreskeho spolku, [n.d.]

SFS

Szlovák népdalok / Slovenské ľudové piesne / Slovak Folk Songs: The “Rough Draft” Version of Béla Bartók’s Collection Entitled Tót Folk Songs I, ed. István Käfer and Erika Sztakovics. Szeged: Gerhardus, 2011.

Slovenské spevy/I–II

Slovenské spevy [Slovak Songs], Diel [I.] and II. Ed. Priatelia Slovenských spevov. Turč. Sv. Martin: Tlačou Knihtlačiarskeho účastináreskeho spolku, 1880 and 1890. New critical edition: Slovenské spevy: druhé doplnené, kritické a dokumentované vydanie [Slovak Songs: second enlarged critical edition with documentation], vol. I and II, ed. Ladislav Galko. Bratislava: Opus, 1972, 1973.

SLP/I–IV

Béla Bartók, Slovenské ľudové piesne / Slowakische Volkslieder, ed. Alica Elscheková and Oskár Elschek. Vols. I and II, Bratislava: Academia Scientiarum Slovaca and Asco art and science, 1959, 1970, and 2007. More recent edition: Slovenské ľudové piesne / Slovak Folk Songs, vols. I–IV (vol. IV with a CD supplement of the phonograph records), ed. Alica Elscheková and Oskár Elschek. Bratislava: Hudobné centrum, 2019 and 2022

Színi

Károly Színi, A magyar nép dalai és dallamai [Songs and Melodies of the Hungarian People]. Pest: Heckenast Gusztáv, 1865.

Szunyogh

Nótás könyv. 530 összegyűjtött magyar nóta dallama és szövege, összegyűjtve Szunyogh Lórándnétól [Songbook: 530 Hungarian Popular Songs with Melody and Words, collected by Mrs. Lóránd Szunyogh]. Nagyvárad: Emil Berté, 1900.

Tari

Lujza Tari, Bartók Béla hangszeres magyar népzenegyűjtése [Béla Bartók’s Instrumental Hungarian Folk Music Collection]. Dunaszerdahely: Csemadok Művelődési Intézete, 2011. Online access: https://csemadok.sk/publikaciok/bartok-bela-hangszeres-magyar-nepzenegyujtese/

Bartók–Geyer

Béla Bartók, Briefe an Stefi Geyer, 1907–1908, ed. Lajos Nyikos. Basel: privately printed, 1979.

BBA

Bartók Archives, Institute for Musicology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest

BBI/1

Bartók Béla írásai [Béla Bartók Writings], vol. 1: Bartók Béla önmagáról, műveiről, az új magyar zenéről, műzene és népzene viszonyáról [Béla Bartók on his life, work, the new Hungarian music, the relation between art music and folk music], ed. Tibor Tallián. Budapest: Editio Musica, 1989.

BBI/3, 4

Bartók Béla írásai [Béla Bartók Writings], vols. 3 and 4: Írások a népzenéről és a népzenekutatásról [Writings on Folk Music and Folk Music Research] I–II, ed. Vera Lampert. Budapest: Editio Musica, 1999 and 2016.

BH

Bartók Estate, Gábor Vásárhelyi’s collection

BÖI

Bartók Béla összegyűjtött írásai [Béla Bartók Collected Writings] I, ed. András Szőllősy. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1967.

Essays

Béla Bartók Essays, ed. Benjamin Suchoff. London: Faber & Faber, 1976.

fol.

folio

GV

Gábor Vásárhelyi’s collection

m., mm.

measure, measures

MS

manuscript

PSS SBB

Paul Sacher Foundation, Béla Bartók Collection (Paul Sacher Stiftung, Sammlung Béla Bartók), Basel

Studies

Béla Bartók, Studies in Ethnomusicology, ed. Benjamin Suchoff. Lincoln: Lincoln University Press, 1997.

Visszatekintés/2

Zoltán Kodály, Visszatekintés: Összegyűjtött írások, beszédek, nyilatkozatok [Looking Back: Collected Writings, Speeches, and Statements], vol. 2, ed. Ferenc Bónis. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1982.