National stereotypes and music
Krisztina Lajosi
Abstract Music became a marker of national identity in nineteenth‐century E urope. Western art music consists tonal systems that are universally intelligible, but certain rhythms and musical idioms have been associated with styles. How, when, why does phrase or piece become national? What political cultural circumstances contributed to the development styles facilitated emergence resonant topographies? was relationship between as practice thought discursive space? These questions addressed particular focus on verbunkos , which came be characteristic H ungarian style, R ákóczy M arch famous thanks B erlioz's F aust . This essay traces complex process transfer through these martial tunes mixed ethnic origins emblematic Hungarian music.
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