For Children Band 1, piano

Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Para los niños, vol., 1

Edición de / Edited by: Lampert, Vera / Vikárius, László

Long before his famous Mikrokosmos, Bartók composed a comprehensive collection of little piano pieces, entitled For Children. Written in 1908-1911, its two volumes are based on Hungarian and Slovakian folk tunes respectively. Both are organised in ascending difficulty, from simple two-part pieces to Impressionistic miniatures, and they offer everything that children?s hands can manage. Bartók revised this collection in the 1940s. He did not just make musical improvements, but also gave every movement a title. This revised version forms the main text of our Urtext edition, while an appendix offers movements from the early version that diverge significantly from the revised ones. As always in Henle?s Bartók editions, there are indications regarding performance practice and insights into how the composer himself played these pieces.

CONTENIDO:

No. 1 Children at Play Piano 1 easy
No. 2 Children's Song Piano 1 easy
No. 3 Piano 1 easy
No. 4 Pillow Dance Piano 2 easy
No. 5 Play Piano 1 easy
No. 6 Study for the Left Hand Piano 2 easy
No. 7 Play Song Piano 1 easy
No. 8 Children's Game Piano 2 easy
No. 9 Song Piano 1 easy
No. 10 Children's Dance Piano 2 easy
No. 11 Piano 2 easy
No. 12 Piano 3 easy
No. 13 Ballad Piano 2 easy
No. 14 Piano 2 easy
No. 15 Piano 2 easy
No. 16 Old Hungarian Tune Piano 2 easy
No. 17 Round Dance Piano 2 easy
No. 18 Soldiers' Song Piano 2 easy
No. 19 Piano 3 easy
No. 20 Drinking Song Piano 2 easy
No. 21 Piano 3 easy
No. 22 Piano 2 easy
No. 23 Dance Song Piano 2 easy
No. 24 Piano 2 easy
No. 25 Piano 2 easy
No. 26 Piano 2 easy
No. 27 Jest Piano 2 easy
No. 28 Choral Piano 2 easy
No. 29 Pentatonic Tune Piano 3 easy
No. 30 Jeering Song Piano 3 easy
No. 31 Piano 2 easy
No. 32 Piano 3 easy
No. 33 Piano 2 easy
No. 34 Piano 3 easy
No. 35 Piano 3 easy
No. 36 Drunkard's Song Piano 3 easy
No. 37 Swine-Herd's Song Piano 4 medium
No. 38 Winter Solstice Song Piano 3 easy

ABRSM: Piano Grade 5
No. 39 Piano 4 medium
No. 40 Swine-Herd's Dance Piano 4 medium

Appendix
Pieces in the early version not included in the revised version
Variants of the early version
Transcriptions of Bartók's recordings