Stage and folk tradition in the cultural history of the Kállai kettős (Couple Dance of Kálló)

Paksa, Katalin (2014) Stage and folk tradition in the cultural history of the Kállai kettős (Couple Dance of Kálló). Studia Musicologica, 55 (3-4). pp. 295-320. ISSN 1788-6244

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Abstract

Zoltán Kodály’s Kállai kettős [Couple Dance of Kálló] was premiered by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble in Budapest in 1951. However, it was not in Kodály’s work that the folk songs arranged in it were first presented to the cultured public. In the interchange of folk tradition and high culture they have already cropped up in the past three hundred years, among others in stage productions. This paper examines the folkloristic sources of Kodály’s work from a dual angle: how they were connected to the stage before Kodály’s arrangement and how their variants were embedded in the folk tradition. Today Kállai kettős is living also a “double life”: Kodály’s work is part of the national canon, but it is also present in the traditional productions of the revivalists of Nagykálló.

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