Page "Music of Hungary" Paragraph 6

According to Szabolcsi, these ' Hungarian transpositions ', along with " some melodic, rhythmical and ornamental peculiarities, clearly show on the map of Eurasia the movements of Turkish people from the East to the West ".

The subsequent influence on neighboring countries ' music is seen in the music of Slovakia and, with intervals of the third or second, in the music of the Czech Republic.

Hungarian and other Finno-Ugric musical traditions are also characterized by the use of an ABBA binary musical form, with Hungary itself especially known for the A A ' A ' A variant, where the B sections are the A sections transposed up or down a fifth ( A ').

Modern Hungarian folk music evolved in the 19th century, and is contrasted with previous styles through the use of arched melodic lines as opposed to the more archaic descending lines.