THE HYMNAL OF GALLUS HUSZÁR OF 1560

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• Ágnes Török The doctrines of Reformation spread with great power in Hungary and the, -90% had have already been conformed to the new religion at the end of, the sixteenth century. Vernacular evangelization was placed in the centre of the, ceremony during which the singing of the congregation became the part of the liturgy., well. Many thousand pieces of Hungarian Gregorian melodies were preserved by the, surviving protestant graduals, while the congregational melodies were contained by, cancionals., Published Hungarian congregational songs for the most part are known but the, earliest melody variants from the sixteenth century only became available when Huszár, Csomasz Tóth Kálmán whose findings received new angles after the emergence of the, protestant melodies arrived in Hungary from Czech-Moravian sources or rather they, display Czech-Moravian influences. Detailed analysis of melodies and sources in, proved that the protestant congregational songs mainly arrived in, Hungary from German language territories and only a small portion of them show traces, of Czech Moravian musical elements., The most comprehensive presentation of the sixteenth century vocal melodies in, Hungarian can be found in Treasury of the old Hungarian Tunes, Vol. I.: The Hungarian, melodies of the 16th century by Kálmán Csomasz Tóth. It displays the melodies and, textual backgrounds of 250 secular and religious songs on the basis of contemporary, sources till 1950. Also, it gives abundant data about the origin and variation of the, melodies appointing Hungarian and foreign primary sources and later publications., Examining the origins of the sixteenth century we can distinguish the followin g groups:, Luther and the melodies of Reformation, odes with antic metres, historical songs,, melodies with Gregorian connections (direct transpositions, variations, compilation) Author