"Lakodalmas", commonly translated into English as "Wedding Dance", is an early vocal composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti.
At that time, he was following Béla Bartók's steps: he produced other vocal compositions based on Hungarian traditional music and poems.
[1][2] "Lakodalmas" was composed during a Stalinist era, and Hungarian folksongs were strictly restricted.
However, they have been translated into English by Laurie Anne McGowan and German by Gyula Hellenbart.
The song has a steady tempo of = 140 and is marked Poco meno mosso towards the end of the composition, where the eighth notes used along the composition are turned into half notes and the song turns much more static.