#magyarnota — Public Fediverse posts
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reading up about the #78rpm phonograph era again for an article I'm trying to write and decided to see what new discs had been posted to @internetarchive since last time I looked. Here's an interesting Hungarian-style #cimbalom and #tarogato piece by anonymous artists, recorded in NYC around 1910. The tarogato player may have been called A. Selzer.
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Hungary, 1970. Saturday night is partying night. This seems a typical party for those of a certain age in Hungary. Lots of alcohol, probably pálinka (fruit brandy), and if you were lucky, a live Roma violinist. They would sing the old songs known as "magyar nóta", a variety of sugary, sentimental songs about romance and the old days, all infused with a very Hungarian sense of melancholy and emotion. Similar perhaps to Fado music in Portugal, or Chanson in France, especially in the sense of music being tied to national identity.
Source: Fortepan [144259] / István Péterffy