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Bartók Béla: Mikrokosmos for piano V-VI

(Urtext) BB 105 (1932-1939)

sheet music

Edited by Nakahara, Yusuke
Setting: Piano
Series: Separate Editions from the Bartók Critical Edition
Genre: Pedagogical performance pieces
Period: 20th Century
Language: Hungarian, English
Length: 116 pages
Format: 23,5 x 31 cm (K/4)
Weight: 0.455 kg
Published: March 2021
Publisher: Editio Musica Budapest Zeneműkiadó
Item number: 20085
ISMN: 9790080200858
Bartók's Mikrokosmos has been one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire for 80 years - and yet it is also far more than a "classical" piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organized in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing but also with the fundamentals of composition - from "Imitation and Inversion," "Ostinato," and "Free Variations," concerning compositional technique, to mood pieces and pieces with programmatic ideas such as "Notturno," "Boating," "From the Diary of a Fly," or the famous "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm." Mikrokosmos first appeared in 1940 in six volumes. Based on volume 40 of the Bartók Complete Edition published in 2020(Z. 15040), the present Urtext edition offers the series gathered in three volumes. This edition includes Bartók's preface, exercises, and notes written for the first edition. Furthermore, it also features a preface and comments by the editor, which not only discuss the genesis and the compositional sources but also provide performers, teachers and pupils alike, with authentic and detailed information about Bartók's notation and the specific performing problems of Mikrokosmos.

Contents

122.
Chords Together and Opposed
123.
Staccato and Legato (3)
124.
Staccato
125.
Boating
126.
Change of Time
127.
New Hungarian Folk Song
128.
Peasant Dance
129.
Alternating Thirds
130.
Village Joke
131.
Fourths
132.
Major Seconds Broken and Together
133.
Syncopation (3)
134.
Studies in Double Notes
135.
Perpetuum mobile
136.
Whole-tone Scale
137.
Unison
138.
Bagpipe
139.
Merry Andrew
140.
Free Variations
141.
Subject and Reflection
142.
From the Diary of a Fly
143.
Divided Arpeggios
144.
Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths
145.
Chromatic Invention (3)
146.
Ostinato
147.
March
148.
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 1.
149.
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 2.
150.
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 3.
151.
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 4.
152.
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 5.
153.
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 6.
Separate Editions from the Bartók Critical Edition
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