Bela Bartok

The Mikrokosmos is a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written with a didactic purpose. That is to give the piano pieces which can be used from the very beginning and then going on it is graded according to difficulties. The title Mikrokosmos can be interpreted as a series of pieces in many different styles representing a small world. This edition has been written in English French German and Hungarian.

This is the new definitive collection for piano edited by Peter Bartók of Bartók's For Children based on Hungarian Folk Tunes.

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 create music that is as modern today as when the cycle was written.

The 153 pieces making up 'Mikrokosmos' are divided into six volumes arranged according to technical and musical difficulty. / Partition /

The 'Romanian Folk Dances' undoubtedly rank amongst Bartók's most popular compositions. The earliest version is scored for piano (1915) and was published by Universal Edition in 1918. ln the preparation of this revised edition the last previous printed edition was compared with the available manuscript sources which include editions marked by Béla Bartók with corrections. His corrected copies of the violin-piano transcription (prepared by Zoltán Székely) as well as the orchestra arrangement were also considered.The major correction concerns metronome numbers. At various times since the work's first publicationthe composer slightly revised some of these tempi. ln the composer's lifetime the last printed editions of both violin-piano and piano versions produced during World War II bear corrections in his file copies the two being in agreement with each other as well as with the marked duration of each dance. The tempi found in these printed editions believed to be the composer's last word on the subject appear in this revised edition.' (Peter Bartók)

This is a transcription of Bela Bartok's Roumanian Folk Dances for Clarinet and Piano by Zoltan Szekely. Score and Part edition.

Bartok’s Violin Concerto No.2 is an exciting work which is available here as a miniature score for study and reference purposes.Bela Bartok's interest in variation as a compositional method was most fully realised in this Concerto which he completed in 1938 and dedicated to his dear friend Zoltan Szekely. This is a detailed yet unostentatious Concerto in which the variations and intense expression the piece to life.

This is a new edition of Béla Bartók?s popular Romanian Folk Dances in its original scoring for Solo Piano. With fascinating background notes and unique imagery this publication is essential for pianistsinterested in the work of the Hungarian composer.When Bartók?was just 23 years old he visited the Transylvanian town of?Gerlicepuszta. Overhearing a lullaby sung by a teenage servant girl named LidiDósa he quizzed her about it and noted it down. This was the beginning of a passion for folk music that would go on to change the course of the composer's life and work. Romanian FolkDances?remains one of Bartók's most popular and enduring works evoking the folk melodies combined with his own idiosyncratic harmonies and textures. Each of the six short pieces here is based on atraditional melody which Bartók?penned during his travels.? Including newly engraved masterpieces?Stick Dance Waistband Dance In One Spot Dance From Butschum Romanian Polkaand Fast Dance this sheet music collection features editorial revisions guided by recordings of Bartók's own performance. The notation also includes fingering guidancethroughout. Romanian Folk Dances also?features a specially-written introduction as well as some fantastic photographs that both tell the story of the young composer and the intriguingbackstory of this work.? One of the most important 20th century composers and along with Liszt one of Hungary's finest musical minds Bartók?held a strong fascination for folkmusic. Through his studies recordings and arrangements he composed some incredible music like these?Romanian Folk Dances ?while simultaneously initiating the field of

An Evening in the Village was composed in 1908 as no. 5 of the Ten Easy Piano Pieces. It has become one of Bartók's favorite works which the composer himself was fond of playing at recitals. As he explained in an American interview it was ''an original composition that is ... with themes of my own invention but ... the themes are in the style of the Hungarian-Transylvanian folk tunes. There are two themes. The first one is a parlando-rubato-rhythm and the second one is more in a dance-like rhythm. The second one is more or less the imitation of a peasant flute playing.'' Bartók also orchestrated the piece in 1931 as no. 1 of HungarianSketches. In 2015 we are launching a series entitled Bartók Transcriptions for Music Students to mark the 70th anniversary of the composer’s death. This involves reissuing our tried publications and publishing some further new transcriptions that fulfill in every respect the strict aesthetic demands of the earlier ones. We trust these publications will allow us to introduce still more music students to the realm of one of the great geniuses of 20th-century music.

Composées en 1915, les Danses populaires roumaines comptent parmi les oeuvres les plus connues de Bartók - et ce sous de multiples formes, car outre les diverses éditions de la version pour piano et une orchestration plus tardive de Bartók lui-même, il existe également des arrangements réalisés par des contemporains, avec l'accord du compositeur. On peut aujourd'hui même avoir recours à des enregistrements des danses par Bartók lui-même - ces derniers, avec des reprises variées et enrichies de doublures à l'octave, illustrent en quelque sorte la 'version de concert' des danses. Le spécialiste de Bartók László Somfai a mis de l'ordre dans cette abondante documentation et présente dans la Henle-Urtextausgabe les variantes essentielles pour le musicien, directement dans le texte musical. / Piano