#hungarian folk song

[jessdyet]

Hut deep in the forest. It was lived by the gray old man. The rabbit jumped towards him.

Please, please help me!

The hunter is running after me!

Come, come, little bunny!

Never be afraid little bunny! The two of us will , get along well.

[sidabro]

hearing my sister randomly say things ive tought her long ago is so warm. wow, i influenced this entire human's mind. Thats crazy

[baellielurk]

ezt annak a 3 embernek osztom meg akik magyar curse of strahd dmek/játékosok és nem ismerem őket személyesen 🫡

[fucked-upprincess]

Járjál babám addig sírva

Míg a fűzfán terem szilva

Az akácfán piros alma

S az akácfán piros alma

~ A Láli Nénié

[sexerxes]

I think my favourite part of Hungarian folk songs is shouting out random household objects. Like, hell yeah, S P O O N

[earhartsease]

Ne aludj el, két szememnek világa

Mert már feljött piros hajnal csillaga

Ne aludj el, két szememnek világa!

Mert már feljött piros hajnal csillaga

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Egyik csillag Kostyál János csillaga

Másik csillag Piros Anni csillaga

Ne aludj el, két szememnek világa!

Mert már feljött piros hajnal csillaga

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Amit adtál a jeggyűrűt vedd vissza!

Homály fedi gyémántkövét, nem tiszta

Ne aludj el, két szememnek világa!

Mert már feljött piros hajnal csillaga

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my favourite Hungarian folk song (starts around 8:30 in the below recording) - it's an end-of-love song, about János and Anni, like stars, like flowers - they wake up in the morning and she says to him (loose translation) "take back the ring that you gave me - the diamond has gone cloudy" which is such a heavy burn and anyway the harmonies are amazing

I first heard this on someone's old cassette they gave to me at college and it took another 20 years before I got to find out what the song was about (had to wait for the internet yes I'm that old)

[infernal-general]

The 𝕲𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖑's theme

Powerful, passionate, intense right from the very start. Opening with a cry, just like how her nightmare of a life began with her first cry for air. Fast paced music with even faster taps, she was ahead of everyone, lived life faster than it was happening, trained extremely hard to become a living weapon. Always on the edge, on the run, in danger, in war, the pressure never letting up, the brutal pace only increasing slightly till the somber notes of the guitar cutting through the lively pace foreshadow her fall.

Even after the music, she's still dancing. Still fighting till the very end. The voice taking over along with a few plucks of strings is when the betrayed, dying General looks at her fallen, massacred army, men and women, children she fought with, for and loved deeply. The soul cutting realization of the situation along before she slowly succumbs too to her injuries.

But it's far from over. She spirals down to Hell and the music picks up immediately with a key difference: instruments only, the dance steps nowhere to be heard. Besides the Spanish guitar, new instruments added, panic, wild, untamed aggression. Dissonance as she battles with the Hellfire trying to destroy her mind. Frantic howls, cries of agony, rage, desperation in shape of electric guitar from a woman on the very edge of insanity with refusal to submit. The moment when fight is won, when the Hellfire General was truly born and became a threat to both realms is when the shoe taps return, accompanied by the melodic voice.

The gentle aria is in contrast of the wild music and sounds, encompassing the love for her army, her family that keeps pulling her back from the edge, keeps her mercilessly pushing, charging forward. The slams of the shoes are also different this time, now they don't sound like dance steps but a vicious wardrum instead. The sound becomes dominant over the strings, instruments; louder and louder with brutality, she is in complete control of her powers and sees her aim clearly.

The stop is abrupt, yet it's not the end again. Only the gentle ode trails on, symbolizing her transcendence to Horseman of War. It is reminiscent to an ancient warrior's epic: a tale of defiance, war, passion, bloodshed, tragedy, sacrifices and power to become her destiny; taking humanity's side at last.

[paul-archibald]

Variations

Composers have used variations in music for centuries. Renaissance and Baroque composers wrote variations on a short tune in the bass which was repeated again and again. Handel wrote a famous set of variations for harpsichord and Bach wrote his monumental Goldberg Variations. Mozart, Beethoven Brahms, Elgar, Schoenberg and Britten all contributed to the genre so the the prohramme today explores…

[whencyclopedia]

Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók (1881-1945) was an innovative Hungarian pianist and composer most famous for his classical works for piano and orchestra, string quartets, and songs, many of which present traditional Hungarian and other European folk themes. Bartók, a prodigious scholar and collector of folk songs, is widely considered one of the greatest musicians Hungary has ever produced.

Early Life

Béla Bartók was born on 25 March 1881 in Nagyszentmiklós (now called Sânnicolau Mare), then located in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (but today located in Romania). Béla's father was a teacher in the local agricultural college, and his mother was a piano teacher. Béla's father died when he was seven years old, and so mother and son moved to Pressburg (called Pozsony by the Hungarians), today's Bratislava in the Slovak Republic. Béla's mother taught him to play the piano from the age of five. He showed a rare talent and was already performing in public by the age of eleven; he had started composing his own pieces even earlier, at the age of nine.

Béla turned down a free scholarship to study at the music academy in Vienna and instead decided to attend the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest from 1898. Bartók graduated in 1903. First earning a living as a concert pianist, from 1907, Bartók worked as a piano professor at the Academy. Although the post gave Bartók some financial stability, it was not quite what he had hoped for; he remarked that he was, in truth, "a reluctant teacher and would have preferred a research post" (Steen, 722). Bartók continued to compose, with early influences coming from the works of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Richard Strauss (1864-1949) – particularly his symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra –, and Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971).

Bartók's character and drive is here summarised by the music historian H. C. Schonberg:

Bartók was a tiny, frail man with explosive psychic force, prepared to go his own uncompromising way even if his music was never played. A stubborn integrity and an all-encompassing humanism animated the man, and he would not swerve from his ideal of truth.

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Béla Bartók, 1903

Unknown Photographer (Public Domain)

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[jokeroutsubs]

[ENG TRANSLATION] "It seemed like an impossible dream to perform on Sziget's Main Stage" - Exclusive interview with Joker Out

Original article written by Peti for MusicDaily on 25.07.2024. English translation by IG gurdonanna, X brnbergeron and X zozzzzie, proofread by IG gboleyn123

Video interview available here:

Formed in 2016, Joker Out became the fan favourite band of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. The boys represented the neighbouring Slovenia with their hit 'Carpe Diem', and this year they are finally coming to our country for the first time. Namely to Sziget Festival, at which they say was one of their biggest dreams to perform - or rather, never in their wildest dreams they could imagine to ever get about an hour long time slot at the main stage of such a big festival to prove their dedication and talent.

If you ask them, they describe their musical style as 'shagadelic rock n'roll', which roughly translates to very sexy rock n'roll mixed with the extravagant style of the '80s. They've toured the old continent, and in the UK, even Lewis Capaldi was curious to see what kind of party they put on. One thing is for sure, with their coolness, they put Slovenia on the musical map of the world, as they proudly use folk music in their sound, sometimes in the ex-Yugoslavian style.

We sat down with the boys for a Zoom call before their performance at Sziget Festival, where Kris, Jan, Jure and Nace were present.

We asked them about their song 'Bluza', of course, but also about the new album, Sziget and their experiences at the Eurovision Song Contest. The guys already knew a few Hungarian words, which we will only reveal in the video version, while you can read the whole interview below - exclusive interview with Joker Out.

It's so nice to see you. How are you today?

We are good, right? I think we are well woken up right now, because usually this would be too early for us, but we've been doing interviews for the past hour and a half, so we are in a good mood right now.

You'll be playing your first show in Hungary in less than a month. Have you ever been to Hungary before?

Yeah, yeah. But I think we've only been to Budapest so far.

This summer, you'll be performing at Sziget, which is like one of the biggest festivals in Central Europe. How excited are you about the show, and what can your fans expect from it?

I think we are all very, very, very excited for it, because especially playing on the main stage has always been one of those unachievable dreams, like we never thought it will ever happen. So it's very surreal, that we'll play there, and so accordingly we are gonna give it our all onstage.

We'll have everything with us: screens, lights, special effects, to make it worthwhile for everyone, for those who already know us and those who don't yet.

And your fans are very curious if there will be any unreleased songs at the concert...

We haven't decided on the setlist yet.

We have so many released songs, so it would probably be a mistake not to play them. The thing is, we probably won't have a lot of time to play, so we have to prioritise... and those are definitely going to be the released ones.

And speaking of concerts, do you have any pre show rituals that you always do before concerts?

When the intro starts rolling... there is always an intro. When the intro comes on, and we hear it in our earpieces, we do this [demostrates] and it's like, unifying our energy before we go on stage.

Sziger Festival is also called "The Island of Freedom". So I'm curious, what does freedom means to you personally?

Freedom from alarm clocks. That is definitely one of the biggest freedoms I enjoy and do not take for granted in my life.

Freedom is to be able to freely express your opinions on any topic, and to walk around on the streets of your town without feeling danger, that anything might happen to you. That is a kind of freedom we take for granted, but maybe it is good to sometimes think that it's not the same for every person in the world.

And the freedom when we are creating music. We don't have labels on us that are pushing us. And being able to live from music. That's freedom to me. Being able to do what you want and to have the financial means to feel free and to enjoy this.

If you could change just one thing about the world, what would it be?

That there would be no jealous or greedy people in the world anymore.

And I would try to make the borders between countries disappear as much as possible.

No more music on Spotify, only on CDs and records. And stop spreading false information and only share what is objectively true. It's a hard one, but it's a good sentiment.

You just released your latest song 'Šta Bih Ja'. Can you tell us a bit about the background of the song? What inspired it, and what is the message you want to convey with it?

The background to the song is that we went to London for two months, in January and February, to create our new album, and this was the first song we composed. We actually put this song together very quickly in January, in maybe like the first or second session in our new rehearsal space there.

Musically it's very up-tempo, energetic and a bit ex-Yugoslavia inspired, but the lyrics are darker than the music itself.

So there's a bit of contrast. The message or the vibe of the song is kind of what we felt when we went to England. The feeling of being a stranger in a big city, not knowing many people, and knowing that someone you love is waiting for you somewhere else, but you can't reach them at that moment. That's pretty much what it's about.

How is your new album shaping up?

Slowly, but good. Very slowly. But very good.

What three words would you use to describe the album?

To describe the album in three words? Not released yet.

If I had to say one word, I'd use "cocktail". Because it will have different languages and musical styles. Love... of course. And an album full of hits. So the three words: cocktail, love and hits.

Your fans are particularly excited about one song, and that's 'Bluza'. Do you know when it will be officially released?

I just recorded the drums for the second time yesterday, so slowly, probably in a couple of weeks. I mean to finish it, not to release it. We haven't even finished it completely, but we'll probably release it before the album.

This is going to be the next single, so probably in late August or

September.

September, yeah. Hopefully. Don't take it for sure, but yeah, because

it's a song that we all really love, and we feel it's very special, so we want it to be perfect for release.

Now let's talk about Eurovision, a very famous competition with a very long history. So I wonder how you prepared for it emotionally?

I think there was not much emotional preparation. Everyone says that Eurovision is intense, and you have to prepare and stuff like that. But nobody, at least the first time they go to Eurovision, really understands what is meant by that. So you just go into it like 'yeah, I'm gonna do this', and then when things start happening you realise it's really intense, but by then you're already way too deep into it to start preparing. So what we did was more like surviving Eurovision, doing everything we could and then trying to process what happened.

It's much easier for us because we're a band. We can do it together and so relieve the pressure of interviews or performing on stage. So it's much easier than being a solo artist.

Do you have a favourite memory from your Eurovision journey?

Barcelona, Barcelona. The pre-parties. Those were awesome. Oh yeah, getting to the final... the semi-final too. The semi-final was great.

Finally, do you have any message for your Hungarian fans?

First of all, it's very nice to see that we have Hungarian fans, because although it's a neighbouring country to Slovenia, it's a very different country. We don't share many cultural aspects, especially in music, so we're happy that we have fans there to play for, and we hope that one day we can play our own concert in Budapest.

We promise to try to make that happen as soon as possible. See you there, and at Sziget!

[petermorwood]

So, I visited Europe for the first time in my life a few weeks ago - Rome specifically, right after the Pope opened the Christmas season there - and for the first time in my life tried roasted chestnuts. Are they always that sweet? I will admit to not liking nuts so the fact that they were easier to choke down than I expected was somewhat revelatory, but like still odd. Do you like roasted chestnuts? Also, how does conkers work?

Mostly asking because youre my best European source of knowledge of such things - there's no chestnuts to be had in America

First, there are two kinds of chestnuts, the kind you eat (Castenea, Sweet Chestnuts and the kind you don't (Aesculus, Horse Chestnuts).

(Water chestnuts, which don't grow on trees, are something else entirely.)

Second, there are definitely Castanea chestnuts in America, though I'm betting they're a regional thing so if you're not in the region, hard cheese, and they even appear in the first line of "The Christmas Song".

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,  Jack Frost nipping on your nose,  Yuletide carols being sung by a choir,  And folks dressed up like Eskimos.

The edible ones are definitely sweet, it's even in their name, but the burnt smell of them cooking might suggest they'll taste otherwise, so that can come as a surprise.

I don't care for them myself, though roasted chestnut purée mixed with rum, then topped with unsweetened whipped cream and maybe chocolate sauce is another matter entirely.

This treatment is variously credited as Hungarian, Italian and French; those who want to argue about it can sit over there, because sensible people who want to get on with eating it will be sitting over here...

*****

As for Aesculus conkers, the easiest way to explain them is to point you to this post.

Wearing schoolboy caps, oversized wellies or a severe short-back-and-sides haircut isn't compulsory, but might help. Or not.

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

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[creepycrag]

I had a hungarian folk song stuck in my head all day at work. so now that i'm off work i am listening to. Yup you guessed it happy hardcore

[djuvlipen]

baxtalo romano chibaqo dives akuneske!!

happy romani language day!!

here are some songs that i like in different romani dialects/languages <3

Marianne Rosenberg - U Went Rom (starts at 00:30) / sinti (aka the BEST romani language)

folk song - Mandi Went to Poove the Grai / anglo-romani

Gipsy Casual - Kelushka / romanian vlax romani

Svenko - Kai o Bergi / ruska romani

Parno Graszt - Kade Shukar / hungarian romani (sorry i don't know the exact dialect... :( )

Esma Redzepova - Caje Sukarije / balkan romani (guberti maybe?)

that one song that used to be all over tiktok 2 years ago - Halan Mo Ilo / guberti