The high top of Parnassus resounds with joy

The history of Hungarian music is poor in manuscript and printed sheet music sources, and mostly the existing ones are not at the European level of their time. Of particular importance, then, is the folk tradition of music, which has maintained many antiquities and thus helps to interpret sources that are often rudimentary, inaccurately recorded. That is why Zoltán Kodály could write that a Hungarian music historian must first be a folklorist. " Examples of artistic and original folk music in the online audio supplement serve as illustrations for musical scores, and the book is in Hungarian and English, given the international, mainly Central European, aspects of the topic.