June 2010
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Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
Lajos Vargyas (1914-2007) studied music and poetry, folk music and folk poetry parallel in their dual entities. As a result of his complex way of looking at things, his major works (the monograph of the village Àj, the genre study of the ballad, and the comprehensive book on Hungarian folk music) all stand for this, in spite of their varying aspects coming from their different topics. Here his third monumental synthesising book is examined as far as the interrelationship of melody and text from multiple points of view is manifest in it, with its various consequences. The method of introducing the different aspects in regard to the correlations is first focusing on some select subdivisions of the entry "melody and text" in the subject index, then following the way of one certain tune along the book.