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Béla Bartók - Mikrokosmos Volume 2 | 153 Progressive Piano Pieces for Students and Beginners | Classical Piano Method and Sight-Reading Exercises | Boosey and Hawkes Edition

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Béla Bartók - Mikrokosmos Volume 1 | 153 Progressive Piano Pieces for Beginners and Students | Classical Piano Method and Sight-Reading Exercises | Boosey and Hawkes Edition

Hungarian Folksongs with Hungarian Words for Voice and Piano (Voice and piano)

Kodály, Zoltán

Editio Musica Budapest Zeneműkiadó

Trios (from three-part choral works arranged by E. Szervánszky) (Violins)

Szervánszky Endre

Bartók: 44 Duets for two violas From the 44 Violin Duets

Maurice, Donald

Bigelow, Claudine

"It is of great importance," Bartók wrote, "that anyone who is involved with music should be able to obtain [composers'] works in editions which interpret precisely the author's intentions, not of such kind that may have been arbitrarily modified or forged by some adapter." Thirty-six years after his death, in the centennial of his birth (1881), Bartók's wish has finally been realized in his own work. This collection of early piano music is the first volume in the Bartók Archive Edition, the only edition of the great Hungarian composer to be based on corrections from his memorabilia or original editions in the New York Bartók Archive. Comparison has also been made with Hungarian editions published since 1951, which are based on the holdings of the Budapest Bartók Archivum. It is appropriate to begin the Bartók Archive Edition with piano music, for, as Grove's Dictionary notes: "The pianoforte was his most natural medium of expression. . . . It was the pianoforte that made Bartók express his harmonic thought with such directness." This volume begins with Bartók's first published work for piano, the Funeral March from the symphonic poem Kossuth. Other works include Four Piano Pieces; Rhapsody, Op. 1; and Fourteen Bagatelles, Op. 6. The stark Bagatelles reflect Bartók's reaction against the Romantic style and the beginning of his highly personal and innovative musical language. Benjamin Suchoff, trustee of the Bartók Estate and Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arts and Letters of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, edited this Archive Edition and provided the Introduction, translations of folk-song texts, and musicological scholarship that will ensure definitive status for this edition. Bartók is a keystone composer of the twentieth century, especially for the piano; with this edition, music lovers have the composer's authentic, authoritative last word.

Piano Music of Béla Bartók, Series I: The Archive Edition (Dover Classical Piano Music)

Dover Publications

"It is of great importance," Bartók wrote, "that anyone who is involved with music should be able to obtain [composers'] works in editions which interpret the author's intentions, not of such kind that may have been arbitrarily modified or forged by some adapter." Bartók's wish has finally been realized in his own work. This collection of early piano music is the second volume in the Bartók Archive Edition, the only edition of the great Hungarian composer to be based on corrections from his memorabilia or original editions in the New York Bartók Archive. Comparison has also been made with Hungarian editions published since 1951, which are based on holdings of the Budapest Bartók Archivum.It is appropriate to continue the Bartók Archive Edition with a second volume of piano music, for, as Grove's Dictionary notes: "The pianoforte was his most natural medium of expression. It was the pianoforte that made Bartók express his harmonic thought with such directions." This volume emphasizes Bartók's lifelong work both with East European folk music, and with music for children and student pianists. The 85 short pieces in For Children (1908/9) offer melodies and lyrics from Hungarian and Slovakian folk songs. The piano pieces in this volume and in Series I offer young or beginning pianists material that is at once instructive and eye-opening to the sounds of modern music.Benjamin Suchoff, trustee of the Bartók Estate and professor at the Center for Contemporary Arts and Letters of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, edited this Archive Edition and provided the Introduction, translations of the folk-song texts, and musicological scholarship that will ensure definitive status for this edition. Bartók is a keystone composer of the 20th century, especially for the piano; with this edition, music buyers have the composer's authentic, authoritative last word.

Piano Music of Béla Bartók, Series II (Dover Classical Piano Music)

An outstanding authority on the folk music of Central and Eastern Europe, Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) explored the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic vocabulary of these regions, evolving a terse, vibrant, and unique musical language in his own works. This important compilation of Bartók's short works for piano contains the Allegro Barbaro, a sonorous, boisterous piece of power and bravura; 6 Romanian Folk Dances; 20 Romanian Christmas Carols; 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, a connected cycle of short folk-tune settings; the 4-part Suite, Op. 14; the Three Etudes, Op. 18; and 8 Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20. Highly dissonant, individual, and marked in character, the tunes in the connected cycle of the Improvisations represent a high point in Bartók's treatment of folk materials. These short pieces are an ideal and fully representative introduction to the music of one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century — an attractive repertoire for intermediate and advanced pianists.

Allegro Barbaro and Other Short Works for Solo Piano (Dover Classical Piano Music)

The first vocal work and the only opera written by Béla Bartók (1881–1945), Bluebeard's Castle is considered the greatest Hungarian opera. Though it is concentrated into a single act and has only two characters, it burns with a fully operatic intensity — "a musical volcano," as Zoltán Kodály called it, "that erupts for 60 minutes of compressed tragedy."The libretto, a symbolist drama by the distinguished writer Béla Balázs, takes off from Perrault's fairy tale to present a psychological case study of a nervous bride trying fully to enter the world of her new husband — a darkly charismatic man into whose life she is confident she will be able to bring warmth, brightness, and love. He warns her not to ask what lies behind the seven doors in his gloomy castle, but after insisting that her love gives her the right to know everything about him, she learns the horrifying truth about the man she has married.An early (1911) work of great assurance and promise, this short opera will be a revelation to listeners who know only Bartók's later music. It has a wholly different sound and, in its preoccupation with textures and timbre, shows the influence of Debussy and Richard Strauss. Bluebeard's Castle is the composer at his most sensual — far from the more angular Bartók of later years.This new edition of a long-neglected classic has been reproduced directly from a rare copy of the 1921 vocal score, featuring a piano reduction by the composer and a German translation by Wilhelm Ziegler. For this edition, Stanley Appelbaum has provided an informative Introduction and a full English synopsis based on the original Hungarian text. The result is an inexpensive, indispensable performance aid for the vocal soloist, speaker, and rehearsal pianist.

Bluebeard's Castle Vocal Score (Dover Vocal Scores)

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