L 190

Old Dance Tunes, 9. Allegretto [Erre kakas, erre tyúk]

Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs (1914, rev. 1918; BB 79)

Recording:
MH_1644b
Collecting:
Dercen (Bereg County; now: Drisina, Ukraine), April 1912, Béla Bartók
Informant:
Ferenc Orosz (62)
Performance:
voice
Ethnicity:
Hungarian
Remarks:
The arrangement uses two or two measures from variants of Péterfalva and Fornos, respectively. The text published in the first edition of the work is from the same village but from a different informant.

(#) Source melody published in the first edition of the work

(A) MS field book: T.III, fol. 40v (6th melody)

(A*) Text collecting notebook: IV, fol. 27r, 28r

(B) MS master sheet, carbon copy of the orig. layer of (E), with later additions: MMS, MH 1644b

(C) HFM, no. 53

(D) MS master sheet, copied by M. Ziegler, with Bartók’s later revisions: Bartók System, A-I 357c (BR 01025)

(E) MS master sheet, with later revisions: Bartók System, A-I 357c (BR 01026)

(F) HFSCC/I, no. 357c

CD_BUS-27


Zoltán Kocsis
Bartók New Series, Hungaroton Records, 2008

CD_Bartok_Piano


Béla Bartók
Bartók at the Piano, Hungaroton, 1991

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