Klarinet Archive - Posting 000287.txt from 2005/09

From: David Oakley <guiomarks@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pinky again
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:25:21 -0400

Rumanian is, as the name indicates, a Romance language, descended from
Latin, and hence Indo-European. Hungarian is one of the Ural-Altaic
languages (if linguists still classify Ural and Altaic in a single
language family); its closest relative is spoken somewhere between Moscow
and the Ural Mountains; the closest relatives that are the official
languages of a state are Finnish and Estonian. Not Indo-European. The
Indo-European languages all started with a system in which endings were
added to noun and verb stems; the Ural-Altaic languages tend to be
agglutinative, "combining independent words into compounds with marked
change of form or loss of meaning"; (def. from Webster's).

David Oakley

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

> David Oakley 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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