János Sipos' instrumental and vocal collections from Turkey
Booklet in Hungarian and English.
Recordings collected by Janos Sipos who collected in Turkey between 1988
adn 1993. Sipos continued the work of Bela Bartok researching the traditional
music of Turkey and uncovering some parallels with Hungarian melodies. 45
tracks of vocal and instrumental music played by Turkish and Gypsy musicians.
'Bela Bartok collected folk music in Turkey in 1936. His book about the
Anatolian collection did not make a stir, although the work is a milestone
in ethnomusicology. When Janos Sipos taught at the Department of
Hungarology at Ankara University, in 1988-1993, he had the opportunity to
collect some 1500 tunes.
Janos Sipos began his collection in areas where Bartok had stopped his.
Then, as fewer and fewer new tunes were found, he shifted his field of
research gradually westward. A six-year stay on the spot, the mastery of
the Turkish language, and regular collecting, transcribing and analyzing
work enabled him to prepare a large body of systematized Turkish material
for publication'.