The Csiki collection of Imets Denes

Abstract

This study presents the works of Imets Dénes (1929-2011), a music teacher, folk music collector, and playwright. His folk-music collecting activity took place between 1962 and 1972 in Csík. In his 1972 study, he talks about his collecting activity of the previous decade. He recorded his collections. These contain more than 100 hours of music material. Except for one volume his entire collection is still unpublished because, under the communist system, they were not allowed to be published. He called upon me in 2010 with the intention of publishing his collected material. He entrusted his manuscript to my care. This contains 278 tunes (One little bird, Csíki folk-song collection) (Egy kicsi madarka. Csiki nepdalgyujtes), and unfortunately at the present time remains unpublished.