[Bilimsel Haber] PUBL.- Azeri Folksongs: At the Fountain-Head of Music, Janos Sipos

Sat Jul 1 06:21:42 EEST 2006

PUBL.- Azeri Folksongs: At the Fountain-Head of Music, Janos Sipos

Posted by: Farid Guliyev <fareedaz at yahoo.com>

Azeri Folksongs: At the Fountain-head of Music. (CD included)
Sipos, Janos. Trans. by Judith Pokoly.
Akademiai Kiado, [c]2004, 624 pp., $98.00

The Azeri language version:

Janos Sipos, Azerbaycan El Havalari - Musiqinin Ilkin Qaynaqlarinda,  
Baku, "Ebilov, Zeynalov ve ogullari", 2006, 604 pp. ISBN 5-87459-231-8

Category: Musicology, Number of pages: 624, Format: B5
Cover: Hardback, ISBN: 963 05 8105 1, Date of edition: 2004
Price: 98 euro, Online price (-15%): 83.30 euro
To order:
http://www.akkrt.hu/main.php?folderID=1028&catID=&prodID=17886&pdetails=1

Musicologists and ethnologists as well as those interested in folk  
music will find much of interest in this ambitious study of the folk  
songs of the people of Azerbaijan. Based on research carried out in  
the area beginning in 1987, Sipos, Institute for Musicology, Hungarian  
Academy of Sciences has set down the melodies and words (in English  
and Hungarian translation) of over 300 songs collected from people in  
the areas around Baku, Shamakhy, Quba, Zagatala, and refugees from  
Karabakh. Extensive discussion is included of the musical forms of the  
songs, including comparative forms among Anatolian Turks and  
Hungarians. The CD contains 60 songs.

Short description:

Janos Sipos has been conducting expeditions to the Kazakh, Kyrgyz,  
Anatolian and Thracian Turk and Karachay-Balkar people since 1987. The  
Azeri expedition and this volume is an important step of his research.  
The Azeri Folksongs - At the Fountain-Head of Music volume introduces  
those elementary styles of Azeri folk music, which bring us back to  
the old history of the music. The preface of the book is followed by a  
history of Azerbaijan, after which the collecting expeditions are  
described illustrated with maps and photos. The highlight of the book  
is the comparative presentation of Azeri musical styles. You find an
ample anthology of music examples in the book. The song texts and  
their English and Hungarian translation may be useful for those  
interested in Azeri language and folk culture. In addition to becoming  
acquainted with Azeri folk music, we learn how these musical styles  
relate to the folk music of people living in this area and to the folk  
music of the Anatolian Turks and the Hungarians. The book ends with  
indices and notes, as well as an important supplement: a CD with the
finest tunes of the collected stock.

Farid Guliyev
Founder
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