Hungarian Ethnomusicologist Oszkár Dincsér (1911-1977) as a Pioneer of Musical Anthropology

There are marked differences between Hungarian and American ethnomusicology in incentives, aims, interests, and methods. Hungarian research was based in the early twentieth century on study of musical form, while the Americans approached music in terms of social context and functions. However, Hungarians from the mid-1930s onward moved toward an increasing interest in the social aspects of folk music. Oszkár Dincsér, a lesser known researcher of Kodály's school, exemplifies this trend in his 1943 study of chordophone instruments in the Csík (in Romanian: Ciuc) County region of Transylvania Két csíki hangszer. Mozsika és gardon (Two instruments from Csík. Fiddle and gardon). A comparison with Alan P. Merriam's fundamental work The Anthropology of Music (1964) reveals that Dincsér's study includes almost every topic and approach set out by Merriam twenty years later. Although Dincsér's scholarly career ended with his emigration in 1944, he remains an important forerunner of musical anthropology

Emigration · Ethnomusicology · Folk music · Romanian · Diverse Musicological Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

• Towards the History of Ideas in Ethnomusicology

  Open Access•Ulrich Morgenstern•Musicologist•2018

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