ZOLTÁN KODÁLY

Hailey Buckley
Sep 4, 2018 · 5 min read

When Western European music emerged from the so-called Dark Ages, it spoke with an international voice. No doubt, there were numerous pockets of folk-song, each with its own local vocabulary. But at the level of high art, carefully crafted and quite soon written down, there was only the music of the Church; and its language, with a few minor variations of dialect, was everywhere the same, in style and form and content. That music, early systematized as Gregorian…

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Alphabeticon

"Alphabeticon" is a series of small books about men and women, past and present, who have been important in various fields of human endeavour, such as the arts and sciences, politics, religion, sport, and so on. Each volume contains twenty-six chapters; alphabetically arranged.

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