1.  Folk music retained ancient melodies  X. century : Hungary became part of Europe’s culture  adopting foreign musical achievement without rejecting our traditions  Christianity : plainsong, Gregorian chant  Secular music : we can rely only on written references and contemporaneous folk music

2.  Gregorian chants in two voices  Matthias Corvinus : employed 40 singers; this chorus rivalled that if the Holy See or Burgunoly in size and quality of performance  OttomanTurkish occupation of Hungary: -> Gregorian musical life ceased in the central ages ( 1524-1686 )

3. -> Protestan reformers : translated liturgical songs -> long chronicles about historical events and biblical parables -> Transylvania formed the Eastern part of Hungary : - cultivating Hungarian national consciousness - foreign musicians eg.: Giovanni Battista Mosto : Madrigals of Alba Julia

4.  Bakfark Bálint : contributed to making instrumental music  After Turkish dominance : absorbing the new European style baroque

5.  Musicians from abroad  Esterházi family : orchestra in Kismarton conducted by Gregor Joseph Weined and Joseph Haydn

6.  national consciousness  dance music called verbunkos  Egressy Béni : adopted it in his operas and songs

7.  “Hungary image” in works by great Western composers (Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Weber, Berlioz, Brahms)  romantic period : new national music  Erkel Ferenc : amalgamating verbunkos and quality European music  Liszt Ferenc : uniting the European romanticism with Hungarian traditions

9.  Béla Vikár: collecting folk songs  Hungarian musical performing art had attained international recognition  Zoltán Kodály : - musicial education of people - collecting folk songs- incorporating them into school education - ‘‘Kodály method ‘‘ of teaching music(used abroad too) - choral peaces and two oratorious

10.  Béla Bartók: turned to the traditions of folk music  After the World War II. folksy comporitions

11.  Ferenc Sebő and Béla Halmos : collecting traditional folk songs -> revival of Hungarian folk music and dancing -> dance house movement  Other bands : fame within and outside Hungary  Pop music : opporition to the ragulation  Rock operas and rock oratories