Names of Musical Instruments in 16–18th century Transylvania

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The study presents the meaning and semantic changes of general words, expressions related to musical instruments used in 16–18th century Transylvania. I do not undertake musical terminology, I do not include in my analysis the words denoting musical genres or words of musical theory. The historical linguistic study regards the words such as: virginál, doromb, ütőgardon, tambura, lant, koboz, tilinkó, pikula, etc. and their family. The data used were collected from the Historical Dictionary of Transylvanian Hungarian Language, and my analysis rely only on these data. In my presentation I work only with linguistic data, the musical historical background is not being used.


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Fazakas Emese, born in 1967 Marosvásárhely (Tg-Mures, Romania); 1989-1994 MA studies at Babes-Bolyai University (Kolozsvár, Romania), 1994-1995 MA at Central European University Budapest College (Hungary), 2005 PhD at Babes-Bolyai University (Kolozsvár, Romania); senior lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University, vicedean of Faculty of Letters; research domains: linguistics, Hungarian historical linguistics