Mikrokosmos V-VI

Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos V-VI.

Edición de / Edited by: Yusuke Nakahara

Bartók?s Mikrokosmos is one of the milestones in the pedagogical piano repertoire - and yet it is also far more than a "classical" piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organised in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing, but also with the fundamentals of composition - from "Ostinato", "Free variations" and "Imitation and inversion" concerning compositional technique, to programmatic ideas as in "From the diary of a fly" or the famous "Six dances in Bulgarian rhythm" that form the passionate close of this unique work. This Henle Urtext Edition is based on the corresponding volume of the Bartók Complete Edition that is currently in preparation, and also includes specific practical comments and tips concerning Bartók?s own performances. Furthermore, the six volumes of the first edition, which first appeared in 1940, are here gathered together in three practical double volumes that offer both beginners and advanced pianists a perfect introduction to this work.

CONTENIDO:

Vorwort / Preface / Préface

Mikrokosmos, vol. V
122. Chords together and opposed
123. Staccato and legato (3)
124. Staccato
125. Boating
126. Change of time
127. New Hungarian folk song
128. Peasant dance
129. Alternating thirds
130. Village joke
131. Fourths
132. Major seconds broken and together
133. Syncopation (3)
134. Studies in double notes
135. Perpetuum mobile
136. Whole-tone scale
137. Unison
138. Bagpipe
139. Merry Andrew

Mikrokosmos, vol. VI
140. Free variations
141. Subject and reflection
142. From the diary of a fly
143. Divided arpeggios
144. Minor seconds, major sevenths
145. Chromatic invention (3)
146. Ostinato
147. March
148-153. Six dances in Bulgarian rhythm

Bartók's notes for the first edition

Appendix: Earlier versions without octave spans
-147
-153

Bemerkungen / Comments

Übersetzung der italienischen Vortragsbezeichnungen / Translation of Italian expression marks / Traduction des indications d'exécution italiennes
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