ZOLTÁN KODÁLY
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…

