First Scales and Broken Chords: Piano: Mixed Songbook

SKU: BT.EMBZ20084

English-Hungarian.

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 CompleteEdition 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.

SKU: HL.48182724

UPC: 888680865078. 9.0x12.0x0.11 inches.

“French saxophonist, Jean-Marie Londeix (b. 1932) graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with a First Prize and a Prize of Honour. As a fantastic all-around musician, he has a vast experience which makes his study books, including Scales and Modes, very well-informed. His career has taken him all over the world and many composers have written works specially for him. As an accomplished teacher of other famous saxophonists, he has deduced where the gaps in studies for the instrument are, composing six significant books of the kind. The second volume of Scales and Modes addresses scales and modes over three octaves and broken chords over three and a half octaves. Moreover, fingerings are helpfully included. For all aspiring saxophonists, Scales and Modes, compiled by renowned, contemporary saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix, is an essential guide and aid to progression of technique on the instrument.”.

SKU: HL.14076799

SKU: HL.50498747

The first part of this anthology deals with a selections of easy progressive studies for small hands from 24 Piccoli studi facili e progressivi and 15 Studi facili per le piccole mani (positions of the five fingers, studies on playing two and three notes, alternating hands, overall agility, broken thirds, on the agility of the 4th and 5th fingers, on scales and chords and so on). The second part comprises 'mini compositions' taken from three collections of undoubted aesthetic value: Piccole scintille, Pagine minuscole, Pinocchio.

Der erste Teil dieser Anthologie beinhaltet eine Auswahl aus leichten, im Schwierigkeitsgrad ansteigenden Studien fur kleine Hande aus 24 Piccoli studi facili e progressivi und 15 Studi facili per le piccole mani (Funf-Finger-Position, Studien mit zwei oder drei Noten, Handwechsel, allgemeine Beweglichkeit, gebrochene Terzen, die Beweglichhkeit des 4. Und 5. Fingers, Tonleitern, Akkorde u. v. m.). Der zweite Teil umfasst Mini-Kompositionen aus drei verschiedenen Sammlungen, die zweifellos von hohem asthestischen Wert sind: Piccole scintille, Pagine minuscole, Pinocchio.