Lajtha László -Sárosi Bálint (szerk.): Instrumental music from Western Hungary: from the repertoire of an urban gipsy band - Studies in Central and Eastern European music 3. (Budapest, 1988)
László Lajtha Instrumental Music From Western Hungary László Lajtha, the renowned Hungarian composer and pioneering scholar of folk music from Zoltán Kodály's and Béla Bartók's generation, had published epochmaking monographic collections from the mid-1950s onwards—first from the realm of Transylvanian instrumental music, and then from Transdanubian folk music tradition. The present collection is a posthumous work. Its musical material has been transcribed by two of his students, Béla Avasi and Éva Gábor, and prepared for publication by Bálint Sárosi, Head of the Department of Instrumental Folk Music at the Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. As in previous Lajtha-publications, the book, first and foremost, comprises the scores of the transcribed pieces. These are accompanied by an introductory study by Bálint Sárosi and a body of detailed complementary notes. The 50 transcriptions published in this work are based on the instrumental music collected from a single band leader, István Csejtei, and his fourmember gipsy band. The selection represents the most typical and most valuable pieces from the repertoire of the gipsy band. This collection is recommended to both scholars and cultivators of musical tradition. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ ■ BUDAPEST