Bartók wrote the first dance around the time of the Romanian movements of the 'Seven Sketches' after his first trip collecting Romanian folk music in July-August 1909. The second dance is the fruit of March the following year and it was only after some time he decided they should be published as a pair. From the beginning audiences were impressed by the first dance in the composer's peculiar performance with its initial drumming and its driving rhythms. If less popular compositionally the second dance is more original. He parades and varies his material in a chain form and this too is reminiscent of the dances heard in the playing of Romanian Transylvanian villagemusicians which in his scholarly work Bartók called 'motive dances.' (HCD 32525 Bartók New Series Vol. 25 László Somfai)
SKU: HL.48000031
ISBN 9783702432539. UPC: 803452032199. 9.25x6.0x0.07 inches.
Contents: Dance * Teasing Song * Play * Lullaby * Midsummer Night Song * Cushion Dance * Rumanian Song * Ruthenian Song * Slovak Song (I) * Hungarian Song.
SKU: AP.36-60710007
ISBN 9798888521687. UPC: 676737816278. English.
In the years preceding World War I, Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók (1881-1945) took trips to the Transylvanian region to explore the musical traditions of the Romanian population. Following a two-year depression caused by the war, as well as some professional setbacks, he returned to composition. The Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, emerged in 1915, bearing a strong influence from his experiences as an ethnomusicologist. They comprise 6 dances, all based on folk tunes that Bartók had recorded and transcribed. In 1917, he arranged a version for full orchestra. Hungarian violinist and composer Zoltán Székely (1903-2001) transcribed these six short movements for violin and piano in 1926, which are offered here in this reprint edition. Movements: 1. Joc cu bâta (Stick Dance), 2. Brâul (Sash Dance), 3. Topogó / Pê-loc (In One Spot), 4. Bucsumí tánc / Buciumeana (Dance from Bucsum), 5. Poarga româneasca (Romanian Polka), 6. Aprózó / Maruntel (Fast Dance).
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SKU: AP.36-50731001
ISBN 9798892702539. UPC: 659359622045. English.
This book is devoted to selections from Béla Bartók's transcriptions of 809 Romanian instrumental melodies. It is a student/teacher book, an entertainment for cello enthusiasts, and a romp for any two instruments.
SKU: KJ.WB543
UPC: 084027053461.
Dwayne Milburn has expertly set Béla Bartókâ??s complete Romanian Folk Dances for the modern wind band. It features solos for piccolo, flute, soprano sax (alternate alto sax part provided), and trumpet, plenty of soli passages for various sections and rousing tutti climaxes. This suite is perfect for festival and concert performances.
SKU: KJ.WB543F
UPC: 084027053478.
SKU: BT.EMBZ40071
English-German-Hungarian.
'Dances of Transylvania is the orchestral version of 'Sonatina' (1915). In Sonatina, Bartók had arranged Romanian instrumental (chiefly bagpipe) music. The three movements of the work, 'Bagpipers', 'Bear Dance' and 'Finale' comprise five melodies. Bartók explained that each of the two melodies of the first movement had been played by two pipers, the second by a peasant violinist using the lower strings of the instrument to reproduce the sounds of a bear, and the two melodies of the 'Finale' again by two violinists. In the orchestral version Bartók was out to reproduce the original sonority created by the peasants.' (HCD 32505 Bartók New Series Vol. 5, Virág Büky).
