Hein Krammer - Muziek

Contents of the database

Clicking on the menu-item "Tunes" yields all the tunes in alphabetic order: their titles and the icons of their attachments. The attachment icons are:

  • A file in .PDF format containing sheet music of the melody,
  • a MIDI file that gives an impression of the melody,
  • an MP3 file with the tune played on piano by Hein Krammer,
  • sheet music of an arrangement for piano by Hein Krammer, and
  • the lyrics of the song in Hungarian or Romanian along with their English translation.
Below the "Tunes" item in the menu you find three items "Hungarian", "Romanian" and "Gipsy". The first yields the subcontent of the Hungarian tunes subdivided according to the rhythmic style, the second the Romanian tunes subdivided according to the folkloristic zones, the third Gipsy tunes. Again, the tunes are alphabetically ordered and provided by attachment icons.

The tunes in the database are classified into categories. Clicking on de menu-item "Categories" gives a page with the complete hierarchy of categories. Clicking on a category gives a page with the definition and description of the category as well as all the tunes belonging to that category.

Another menu item is called "Authors". In this system a rather loose definition of the concept is used. So, we distinguish 3 kinds of authors: first the composer of the melody, second the poet of the lyrics, third the ethnomusicologist who collected and/or transcribed the tune. The first two kinds have to do with composed songs and dances to which belong most Hungarian "nóta". The third kind of "author" has to do with oral folk songs. Often in this database, folk music tunes have no author or a fictitious author named "Trad." When you click on the "Authors" item you will get an alphabetically ordered list of all authors and when you then click on an author's name you will get a list of all tunes of this author.