For Children Band 2, piano

Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Para los niños, vol. 2 (canciones eslovacas)

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 Piano 1 easy
No. 2 Piano 1 easy

ABRSM: Piano Grade 3
No. 3 Piano 2 easy
No. 4 Wedding Song Piano 1 easy
No. 5 Variations Piano 2 easy
No. 6 Round Dance I Piano 2 easy
No. 7 Sorrow Piano 1 easy

ABRSM: Piano Grade 2
No. 8 Dance Piano 2 easy
No. 9 Round Dance II Piano 1 easy
No. 10 Funeral Song Piano 1 easy
No. 11 Piano 2 easy
No. 12 Piano 2 easy
No. 13 Piano 2 easy
No. 14 Piano 2 easy
No. 15 Bagpipe I Piano 1 easy
No. 16 Lament Piano 2 easy
No. 17 Piano 2 easy
No. 18 Teasing Song Piano 3 easy

ABRSM: Piano Grade 4
No. 19 Romance Piano 2 easy
No. 20 Game of Tag Piano 2 easy
No. 21 Pleasantry I Piano 3 easy
No. 22 Revelry Piano 3 easy
No. 23 Piano 1 easy
No. 24 Piano 2 easy
No. 25 Scherzando Piano 3 easy
No. 26 Peasant's Flute Piano 3 easy
No. 27 Pleasantry II Piano 3 easy
No. 28 Piano 2 easy
No. 29 Canon Piano 3 easy
No. 30 Bagpipe II Piano 3 easy
No. 31 The Highway Robber Piano 2 easy
No. 32 Piano 2 easy
No. 33 Piano 2 easy
No. 34 Farewell Piano 3 easy
No. 35 Ballad Piano 3 easy
No. 36?37 Rhapsody Piano 3 easy
No. 38 Dirge Piano 2 easy
No. 39 Mourning Song Piano 3 easy

Appendix
Pieces in the early version not included in the revised version
Variants of the early version