origins of the tune "Heiduckentanz"
Psycho Dave
I just learned to play a new tune called "Heiduckentanz", which I've
heard corvus corax play, as well as other medieval pop bands. I was
curious if anyone knew the origins of the piece, and could place it
it's proper historical perspective. I need to find out more about it.
Thanks!
jerom...@comcast.net
Presuming that by "new tune" you mean "new to you", then according to
this website (in German):
<http://mek.oszk.hu/02700/02791/html/123.html>
"The Heiducken first appear in Hungarian history in the first half of
the 16th century". The Heiduckentanz is a soldier's dance, called
"toborzó" in Hungarian. It is a stamping dance, which seems ordinarily
to have been accompanied by bagpipes. A 17th-century source (1615)
describes it as being played by fiddles, trumpets, and bagpipes.
No doubt there were dozens, perhaps even hundreds of tunes for this
class of dance, over a span of 150 to 200 years. Which one exactly you
have is hard to say, but I would start with the New Grove article
"Sources" and look in the subsection "Hungary" for 16th or 17th-century
collections that might contain instrumental music. I'm afraid that's
where the hard slogging begins, first looking through published
collections in a good research library and then, if that fails to turn
up the tune, travelling about to manuscript archives, probably in
Hungary.
Or maybe someone who already has this information will post it here.
--
Jerry Kohl
"Légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal."
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Arthur Ness
"Hejduk," "Hajduk." It is an Hungaruian sword (or hatchet) dance, related
to the Swineherd's Dance.". There
are many versions of the tune. A search under "Heyduck" might more
successful in bringing up many of the tunes.
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