aranyrudak aranyérmék aranybefektetés: www.conclude.hu magyarul lsd. lent. The following clip is from the 1936 film entitled Hortobágy, directed by Georg Höllering. The film was adapted from Zsigmond Móricz's short story entitled Sullen Horse [Komor Ló]. The Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist László Lajtha (1896-1962) was instrumental in the film's creation. It is likely that he also had a hand in this scene. In the space of five minutes, it gives a concise summary of Hungarian folk music and art songs. The revelry of the older generation illustrates the earlier period of folk music, when Hungarians still mainly danced and sang to bagpipe music, then the Gypsy band accompanies a newer style of Hungarian folk song and dance, after which it plays a (relatively lacklustre) Hungarian coffee house folk tune, requested by the wealthy young peasant. By that time there were no active bagpipe players in the Hortobágy area, so József Koós himself a herdsman was bussed in from Nógrád county. The name of the old chief herdsman singing in the film is Imre Kovács, who plays himself in the film. The woman sitting beside him, to whom he is singing, is actually his wife;, but in the film she has been assigned the role of the widow Sárkányné. In the following scene János Czinege, chief herdsman[in Hungarian: Számadó Csikós a wealthy horseman entrusted with overseeing the herds of landowners, for which he also bore financial liability], and his wrangler, or bojtár, Mihály Nagy, dance ...
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