Klarinet Archive - Posting 000286.txt from 2005/09

From: or3mondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Pinky again
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:56:51 -0400

David=A0Oakley wrote:

> [snip about Rumania and Hungary and
> composers]

I do accept that language doesn't determine a composer's music; but can
you tell me to which branch of languages the Rumanian language belongs?
Is it the same branch as Hungarian?

> I seem to remember that at least one
> composer (Liszt? Brahms?) used the term
> Hungarian in the title of a work based on
> themes borrowed from Roma musicians.

Yes, this is a good example. (also Bartok and probably others)

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