Intangible Heritage


Soldier song

oral tradition and folk verse

Csönge

The scores of the 5-verse soldier song, beginning with the line “What’s in your apron, mother” was recorded by Zoltán Kodály in Csönge in 1935. Sung by shepherd József Bocskor (b. 1853). The boy's lover asks the doctor to declare her sweetheart unfit for military service. But the doctor finds him healthy. The boy says goodbye to his mother because he is enlisted as Emperor Joseph Emperor's soldier. There is a similar one-verse folk song known in Transylvania, but there the lad is enlisted in the army of the Romanian king.

Information on digitization

Name of site
Csönge
Other settlement names
Csőnge, Cschoenge, Tsönge.
Conveyance of tradition, knowledge or activity
Sung by shepherd József Bocskor (b. 1853)
Specialist description
Édesanyám, mi van a kötényében című népdal adatai:
Csönge (Vas), 1935.05.
Adatközlő: Böcskör József (82) juhász
Gyűjtő: Kodály Zoltán
Leltári szám: BR_07319
Bartók-rendi szám: B 777c
Kategóriája a Bartók-rendben: B 11
Dallamvariánsok száma: 3
Sorzáró hangok: 1 (b3) b3 1
Written sources
Történeti rendek az MTA BTK Zenetudományi Intézet Népzene és Néptánc Archívumában
Web page
Csöngei népdal: http://systems.zti.hu/br/hu/search/7511?plc=312 (2019.0 9. 16.) Erdélyi változat: https://folkradio.hu/szoveg/nepdal_show.php? (2019. 09. 16.)
Restrictions on use
Korlátozott
Date of documentation
2019-09-16
Person documenting
Mukicsné Kozár Mária

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