Research area and keywords of research:
Children’s choir pieces related to the poetry of Sándor Weöres
(Keywords: Weöres, poems, children’s choir literature, rhythm)
Name of the researcher(s) and research group:
- Dr. Ildikó Ferencziné Ács
Name of the Institute:
University of Nyíregyháza, Institute of Music
Research objectives:
Explore and compare the verse rhythm and the musical elements of the poems with the composer's toolbar.
Description and results of research:
People who know Sándor Weöres’s poetry say that evaluating his life-work is almost an impossible task. Weöres’s figure is mysterious. The life-work is extremely complex and multi-coloured and it hides western and ancient eastern patterns. He can remove the feelings from the surface of the poems and evoke any kind of scene using the elements of language and the accompanying acoustic phenomenon that belongs to it. The basis of his poems is the sound.
Zoltán Kodály had a particular role in the birth of his poems and he ordered from Weöres the texts for his biciniums and vocal exercises. He formulated his requests: he asked texts that came from the traditions of the Hungarian children’s folk songs and rhymes and the ones close to the world of children.
Because of their rhythm and very special acoustic effect, these poems were soon in the sight of the composers. A big amount of children’s choir works has been collected and a few in details analysed. It is clear that the composers kept almost entirely the original verse rhythm and the metrical arrangement too.
The most popular poems proved to be the ones with the imitative sounds and evocative expressions. In these works it was possible to strengthen the imitation of sounds by using musical tools and solutions like puns, repetitions, dynamic games and aleatories could be used. From the simplest strophic form to the complicated mathematical proportion based forms, the choir works are characterized by an amazing polychromy.
A major part of the children’s choir literature based on Weöres’s poems can be regarded as a ‘reincarnated’ musical heritage.
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Publications (max. 5):
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Ferencziné Ács Ildikó: Gyermekversek muzsikája – Weöres Sándor költemények a gyermekkari irodalomban. Nyíregyháza: Bessenyei Könyvkiadó, 2010. 150 p. ISBN: 978 963 9909 625
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Versmegzenésítések gyermekeknek – Miként válasszon a karvezető? (4. rész) Parlando zenepedagógiai folyóirat 2022/3.
http://www.parlando.hu/2022/2022-3/Versmegzenesitesek_4.pdf -
Versmegzenésítések gyermekeknek – Miként válasszon a karvezető? (3. rész) Parlando zenepedagógiai folyóirat 2022/2.>
http://www.parlando.hu/2022/2022-2/Acs_Ildiko.pdf< -
Versmegzenésítések gyermekeknek – Miként válasszon a karvezető? (2. rész) Parlando zenepedagógiai folyóirat 2022/1.
http://www.parlando.hu/2022/2022-1/Ferenczine-Versmegzenesitesek2.pd -
Versmegzenésítések gyermekeknek – Miként válasszon a karvezető? (1. rész) Parlando zenepedagógiai folyóirat 2021/6.
http://www.parlando.hu/2021/2021-6/Ferenczine-Acs_Ildiko.pdf