Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
Mikrokosmos 4
153 Progressive Piano Pieces
piano
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Details
- For
- piano
- Product Type
- Music score
- Author / Composer
- Béla Bartók
- Product number
- 197463
- Difficulty Level
- 3
- 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
- Notturno
- Thumbs Under
- Hands Crossing
- In Folk Song Style
- Diminished Fifth
- Harmonics
- Minor and Major
- Wandering through the Key
- Game (with two five-tone scales)
- Children's Song
- Melody in the Mist
- Wrestling
- From the Island of Bali
- And the Sounds Clash and Clang...
- Intermezzo
- Variations on a Folk Tune
- Bulgarian Rhythm (1)
- Theme and Inversion
- Bulgarian Rhythm (2)
- Song
- Bourée ...