János Sipos
Kyrgyz Folksongs
Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre
for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – L’Harmattan
Budapest, 2014
English translation by Judit Pokoly
Most of the material in the book was recorded by János Sipos in Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz text transcribed from recordings and translated
to Turkish by Gülzura Cumakunova
Turkish text translated to Hungarian by Éva Csáki
The Kyrgyz expeditions were supported by the Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund of the British Academy
and the National Scientific Research Fund, OTKA program No67997
The publishing of the book was supported by the OTKA, National Scientific Research Fund program No111114
The publication of the book was supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA PUB 113373)
Photos made by: János Sipos and Ufuk Tavkul
© Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre
for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
© János Sipos, 2014 Translation © Judit Pokoly, 2014 © L’Harmattan, 2014
ISBN 978-234-307-994-3
Editor in chief: Ádám Gyenes
