Author : Bela Bartok

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Author : Bela Bartok

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Author : Bela Bartok

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Author : Bela Bartok, Willard A. Palmer

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Bartók composed these intermediate-level pieces, ranging from one to three pages, to provide piano students with accessible contemporary music. Each work, including well-known selections like Evening in the Country and Bear Dance, delves into various techniques such as modal scales, tritones, repeated notes, shifting meters, and folk-inspired melodies and rhythms.

Author : Bela Bartok

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In a note accompanying the anticipated first edition of his Hungarian Peasant Songs in 1914, Bartók stated that “the melodies presented here are folksongs in the truest sense of the word; more specifically, peasant songs.” However, he initially chose to withhold this work from publication, subsequently incorporating additional pieces that he had gathered from folk music during that period. The first edition was ultimately released in 1920. László Somfai, a noted Bartók scholar, elucidates the intricate development of this work in his preface. The remarks at the conclusion of this edition provide significant insights into performance practices, informed by the two recordings the composer made of several pieces in 1927 and 1936. The musical text presented here aligns with the corresponding volume of the Bartók Complete Edition, which is currently under preparation. This edition represents yet another highly esteemed work by Bartók available from G. Henle Publishers.

Author : Bela Bartok

Tags : Piano

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he six dances form the final culmination of Bartók's "Mikrokosmos" (HN 1408-1410), a monumental work comprising over 150 pieces. The composer dedicated this grouping, collected under its own title, to the renowned English pianist Harriet Cohen. Inspired by the dances, this specialist in contemporary music found in them "a whole world of music" and championed the pieces. Bartók himself added the dances to his concert repertoire early on, though initially in a reduced form that omitted the fifth dance, which he composed at the end of 1939 as one of the last works in the collection. This Urtext edition of the six dances also features an early version of the concluding piece and provides interesting background details about Bartók's own recital practice. The musical text is based on the Bartók Complete Edition.