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Béla Bartók - Mikrokosmos 1 (urtext)

£8.99

ISMN: 9790060097317
Shop Product Code: 170505K

Department: Piano & Keyboards - A-Z Piano Composers

Description: Piano (English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese)

Publisher: B&H London

Status: In Print (Usually despatched within 24 hours)

  
The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartók. (English/Spanish/Japanese/Portuguese text).

In 1945 Bela Bartok described Mikrokosmos as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for "didactic" purposes, seeing them as a series of pieces in many different styles, representing a small world, or as the "world of the little ones, the children".  Stylistically Mikrokosmos reflects the influence of folk music on Bartok's life and the rhythms and harmonies employed create music that is as modern today as when the cycle was written.

The 153 pieces making up Mikrokosmos are divided into six volumes arranged according to technical and musical difficulty.

Major teaching points highlighted in Mikrokosmos 1:
Unison melodies
Question and answer
Imitation and Inversion

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"A new exciting, definitive edition .. will surely herald a revival of these short pieces as teaching material which can be applied to any piano method"
Music Teacher Magazine

"An impressive tribute to the most comprehensive and challenging piano series of this century"
Clavier, November 1990

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