Mikrokosmos for piano, vol. 5-6, BB 105

Arreglos de / Arranged by: Yusuke Nakahara

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.

CONTENIDO:

Chords Together and Opposed
Staccato and Legato (3)
Staccato
Boating
Change of Time
New Hungarian Folk Song
Peasant Dance
Alternating Thirds
Village Joke
Fourths
Major Seconds Broken and Together
Syncopation (3)
Studies in Double Notes
Perpetuum mobile
Whole-tone Scale
Unison
Bagpipe
Merry Andrew
Free Variations
Subject and Reflection
From the Diary of a Fly
Divided Arpeggios
Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths
Chromatic Invention (3)
Ostinato
March
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 1
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 2
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 3
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 4
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 5
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 6