BARENREITER BARTOK Easy Piano Pieces & Dances

Bartók, Béla

Easy Piano Pieces and Dances

Edition no. BA 6587
ISMN 9790006558018

Editor: Töpel, Michael
Language(s) of text: German, English, French
Product format: Performance score(s), Anthology
Instrumentation: Piano
Binding: Stapled
Pages / Format: 32 S. - 30,0 x 23,0 cm

Bartók’s voluminous output for the piano contains a great many exquisite masterpieces at every level of difficulty. This collection gathers together easy to moderately difficult pieces, including a wide variety of dance forms and folk-music miniatures. Players can coax magical sounds from the instrument using a varied refinement of touch such as silently depressed keys or can even play in two keys at once (bitonality). In addition, all of this provides a stimulus for improvisation.

This collection is a welcome addition to the repertoire used in music schools and private lessons and will, of course, appeal to all lovers of Bartók’s music. Besides familiar works, it also contains several that have never before been edited. Two pieces handed down as fragments have been judiciously completed by the editor. Care has been taken to provide a spacious engraving and practical page turns.

• Easy to moderately difficult pieces with fingering
• Ideal for teaching purposes
• Several pieces edited for the first time
• Spacious engraving with practical page turns

Contents

Vorwort
Preface
Préface
Three Romanian Folk Tunes
1. Play Song
2. Oh Bird with a Yellow beak!
3. Dance (with a jew’s harp)
Two Hungarian Folk Songs
4. No. 1
5. No. 2
6. Little Dialog
7. Children playing
8. Children’s Song
9. Quasi adagio
10. Romance
11. Pentatonic Song
12. Song about the Magic of Christmas
13. An Evening in the Countryside
14.Dance of the Slovaks
15. Hungarian Folk Tune
16. Dance of the Bear
17. Harmonics
18. Melody in the Mist
19. In Wallachian Style op. 9/6
20. Bagatelle op. 6/1
21. Bagatelle op. 6/6
22. Tombourine
23. Air