Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
Mikrokosmos 1
153 Progressive Piano Pieces No. 1-36 New Definitive Edition
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Details
- For
- piano
- Product Type
- Music score (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Béla Bartók
- Product number
- 197460
- Difficulty Level
- 1
- Languages
- german, english, french, hungarian
Description
The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartók. In 1945 Bela Bartok described 'Mikrokosmos' as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for 'didactic' purposes, seeing them as a series of pieces in many different styles, representing a small world, or as the 'world of the little ones, the children'.
Stylistically Mikrokosmos reflects the influence of folk music on Bartók's life and the rhythms and harmonies employed cre...
Content
- Foreword to the Definitive Edition
- Preface by the Composer
- Six Unison Melodies
- Dotted Notes
- Repetition
- Syncopation
- With Alternate Hands
- Parallel Motion
- Reflection
- Change of Position
- Question and Answer
- Village Song
- Parallel Motion with Change of Position
- Contrary Motion
- Four Unison Melodies
- Imitation and Counterpoint
- Imitation and Inversion
- Pastorale
- Imitation and Inversion
- Repetition
- Syncopation
- Canon at the Octave
- Imitation Re...