Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
Mikrokosmos 5
153 Progressive Piano Pieces
piano
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Details
- For
- piano
- Product Type
- Music score
- Author / Composer
- Béla Bartók
- Product number
- 197464
- Difficulty Level
- 4
- 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 crea...
Content
- Foreword to the Definitive Edition
- Preface by the Composer
- Chords Together and in Opposition
- Staccato and Legato (2)
- Staccato
- Boating
- Change of Time
- New Hungarian Folk Song
- Stamping Dance
- Alternating Thirds
- Village Joke
- Fourths
- Major Seconds Broken and Together
- Syncopation (3)
- Studies in Double Notes
- Perpetuum mobile
- Whole-tone Scales
- Unison
- Bagpipe Music
- Jack-in-the-Box
- Appendix: Notes