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Six Humorous Canons

Composer
Kodály Zoltán
Original / Hungarian title
Hat tréfás kánon
Foreign language / English title
Six Humorous Canons
Year of composition
1936
Type
Children's choir
Instrumentation
children´s choir
Duration
4 min
Movements, parts
1. Lencse, borsó, kása / Lentils, Beans, and Buckwheat
2. Madarak voltunk / We Were Birds
3. A leányka szótalan / The Girl Without A Word
4. Tyúkkergető / Hen Chasing
5. Fürdő után / After the Bath
6. Mikor mentem misére / As I Went to Mass
Text
Folk text(s)
Language
Hungarian
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest, Z. 14298 , Z. 6724
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD 31291