L 173

3. Olvad a hó

Hungarian Folk Songs, Volume II for voice and piano (1906–1907; BB 43)

Bartók composed the melody of the arrangement from several variants of the folk melody.

Collecting:
Békésgyula (Békés County), July 1906, Béla Bartók
Informant:
young men
Performance:
voice
Ethnicity:
Hungarian
Remarks:
Recording of a variant: MH 965a

(A) MS field book: M.I, p. 54

(B) MS master sheet, with Bartók’s later additions, and the notation of the composite melody used in the arrangement: Kodály System, KR 04403

(C) MS master sheet in unknown copyist’s hand, with Bartók’s later additions, and the transcription of a variant recorded on phonograph cylinder: MMS, MH 965b

(D) MS master sheet (later version), with four footnoted variants of the melody: Bartók System, B 1224c (BR 08507)

Source of mm. 1–2 of the melody:

Collecting:
Szeged (Csongrád County), August 1906, Béla Bartók
Informant:
young persons
Performance:
voice
Ethnicity:
Hungarian

(A) MS field book: M.III, fol. 10r

(B) MS master sheet (footnoted variant): Bartók System, B 1224c (BR 08507)

Source of m. 3 of the melody:

Collecting:
Kibéd (Maros-Torda county; now: Chibed, Romania), December 1906, Béla Bartók
Informant:
Anna Dósa (15)
Performance:
voice
Ethnicity:
Hungarian

(A) MS field book: M.IV, p. 1

(B) MS master sheet (footnoted variant): Bartók System, B 1224c (BR 08507)

Olvad a hó, csárdás kis angyalom, tavasz akar lenni,
De szeretnék kis kertedben rózsabimbó lenni.
Nem lehetek én rózsa, elhervaszt Ferenc Jóska,
A nagy bécsi háromemeletes magos kaszárnyába.

The snow is melting, my beloved, spring is ready to burst forth.
I would like to be a rosebud in your little garden.
I cannot be a rose, Franz Joseph keeps me withering
In the three-story-high barracks of Vienna.