János Sipos

Kyrgyz Folksongs

Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – L’Harmattan

Budapest, 2014

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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

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© 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

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