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# Six Unison Melodies (IV) |
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# Repetition (1) |
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# Syncopation (I) |
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# Four Unison Melodies (II) |
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# Imitation and Inversion (I) |
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#<li value=37> In Lydian Mode |
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# Staccato and Legato (I) |
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# Staccato and Legato (Canon) |
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# In Yugoslav Style |
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# Melody with Accompaniment |
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# Accompaniment in Broken Triads |
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# (a) In Hungarian Style (for two pianos) |
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#<li value=44> Contrary Motion (2) (for two pianos) |
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# Meditation |
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# Increasing-Diminishing |
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# County Fair |
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# In Mixolydian Mode |
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# Crescendo-Diminuendo |
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# Minuetto |
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# Waves |
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# Unison Divided |
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# In Transylvanian Style |
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# Chromatics |
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# Triplets in Lydian Mode (for two pianos) |
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# Melody in Tenths |
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# Accents |
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# In Oriental Style |
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# Major and Minor |
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# Canon with Sustained Notes |
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# Pentatonic Melody |
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# Minor Sixths in Parallel Motion |
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# Buzzing |
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#<li value=65> Dialogue (with voice) |
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#<li value=67> Thirds against a Single Voice |
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# Hungarian Dance (for two pianos) |
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# Study in Chords |
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# Melody against Double Notes |
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# Thirds |
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# Dragons' Dance |
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# Sixths and Triads |
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# (a) Hungarian Matchmaking Song |
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:: (b) Hungarian Matchmaking Song (with voice) |
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#<li value=75> Triplets |
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# In Three Parts |
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# Little Study |
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# Five-Tone Scale |
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# Hommage à Johann Sebastian Bach |
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# Hommage à Robert Schumann |
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# Wandering |
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# Scherzo |
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# Melody with Interruptions |
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# Merriment |
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# Broken Chords |
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# Two Major Pentachords |
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# Variations |
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# Duet for Pipes |
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# In Four Parts (I) |
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# In Russian Style |
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# Chromatic Invention (I) |
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# Chromatic Invention (II) |
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# In Four Parts (II) |
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# Once Upon a Time... |
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# (a) Fox Song |
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:: (b) Fox Song (with voice) |
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#<li value=96> Jolts |
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#<li value=97> Notturno |
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# Thumbs Under |
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# Hands Crossing |
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# In Folk Song Style |
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# Diminished Fifth |
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# Harmonics |
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# Minor and Major |
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# (a) Wandering through the Keys |
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#<li value=105> Game (with Two Five-Tone Scales) |
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# Children's Song |
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# Melody in the Mist |
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# Wrestling |
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# From the Island of Bali |
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# And the Sounds Clash and Clang... |
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# Intermezzo |
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# Variations on a Folk Tune |
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# Bulgarian Rhythm (I) |
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# Theme and Inversion |
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# Bulgarian Rhythm (II) |
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# Song |
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# Bourrée |
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# Triplets in {{music|time|9|8}} Time |
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# Dance in {{music|time|3|4}} Time |
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# Triads |
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# Two-Part Study |
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#<li value=122> Chords Together and in Opposition |
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#<li value=124> Staccato |
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# Boating |
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# Change of Time |
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# New Hungarian Folk Song (with voice) |
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# Stamping Dance |
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# Alternating Thirds |
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# Village Joke |
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# Fourths |
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# (a) Studies in Double Notes |
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#<li value=135> Perpetuum mobile |
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# Unison |
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# Bagpipe Music |
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# Merry Andrew |
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#<li value=140> Free Variations |
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# Subject and Reflection |
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# From the Diary of a Fly |
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# Divided Arpeggios |
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# Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths |
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#<li value=146> Ostinato |
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# March |
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# Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (I) |
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# Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (IV) |
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# Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (V) |
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Pianists who have recorded all six volumes include [[György Sándor]], [[Edith Farnadi]], [[Homero Francesch]], [[Zoltán Kocsis]], [[Dezső Ránki]], [[Jenő Jandó]], [[Claude Helffer]], and {{ill|Georges Solchany|ru|Сольчаньи, Дьёрдь}}. Bartók himself was the first to publicly perform pieces from ''Mikrokosmos'', on February 9, 1937 in London.<ref>Suchoff, Benjamin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lCgfhRsJIFIC&pg=PA83 Béla Bartók: A Celebration], p. 83 (Scarecrow Press, 2004).</ref> |
Pianists who have recorded all six volumes include [[György Sándor]], [[Edith Farnadi]], [[Homero Francesch]], [[Zoltán Kocsis]], [[Dezső Ránki]], [[Jenő Jandó]], [[Claude Helffer]], and {{ill|Georges Solchany|ru|Сольчаньи, Дьёрдь}}. Bartók himself was the first to publicly perform pieces from ''Mikrokosmos'', on February 9, 1937 in London.<ref>Suchoff, Benjamin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lCgfhRsJIFIC&pg=PA83 Béla Bartók: A Celebration], p. 83 (Scarecrow Press, 2004).</ref> |
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Many jazz musicians have been interested in Bartok's non-Western rhythmic and harmonic complexities in "Mikrokosmos". For example, Australian musician, Andrea Keller, arranged several of these works for piano, saxophone, drums, double bass and clarinet and her group, Tim O'Dwyer - alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Adrian Sherriff - bass trombone, Anita Hustas - double bass and Danny Fischer - drums. She called this her "Bartok Project". |
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==References== |
==References== |
Revision as of 05:47, 5 October 2021
Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos (Hungarian: Mikrokozmosz) Sz. 107, BB 105 consists of 153 progressive piano pieces in six volumes written between 1926 and 1939. The individual pieces progress from very easy and simple beginner études to very difficult advanced technical displays, and are used in modern piano lessons and education. In total, according to Bartók, the piece "appears as a synthesis of all the musical and technical problems which were treated and in some cases only partially solved in the previous piano works." Volumes one and two are dedicated to his son Péter, while volumes five and six are intended as professionally performable concert pieces.[1] Bartók also indicated that these pieces could also be played on other instruments; Huguette Dreyfus, for example, has recorded pieces from Books 3 through 6 on the harpsichord.
In 1940, shortly before they emigrated to the United States, he arranged seven of the pieces for two pianos, to provide additional repertoire for himself and his wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók to play.
Volumes
All of the six volumes progress in difficulty, namely:
- Volumes I and II: Pieces 1–36 and 37–66, beginner level
- Volumes III and IV: Pieces 67–96 and 97–121, moderate to advanced level
- Volumes V and VI: 122–139 and 140–153, professional level
The list of pieces is as follows:
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The opening (mm. 1–76) of "Boating" (V, 125) is typical of the modernist compositional techniques used in the later volumes, featuring the bimodal use of the pentatonic collection on E♭ in the right hand and either G mixolydian or dorian collections in the left:[2]
Volume VI contains the "Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm", dedicated to the English pianist Harriet Cohen. Bulgarian folk music is characterized by additive rhythm, that is, rhythm where the beats in each bar are of unequal length. For example, the first dance (148) is grouped into 4+2+3 quavers in each bar, and the final dance (153) is grouped into 3+3+2 quavers in each bar.
Pianists who have recorded all six volumes include György Sándor, Edith Farnadi, Homero Francesch, Zoltán Kocsis, Dezső Ránki, Jenő Jandó, Claude Helffer, and Georges Solchany . Bartók himself was the first to publicly perform pieces from Mikrokosmos, on February 9, 1937 in London.[3]
References
- ^ Carpenter, Alexander. Mikrokosmos at AllMusic
- ^ Stein, Deborah (2005). "Introduction to Musical Ambiguity" in Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, pp. 82–83. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517010-5.
- ^ Suchoff, Benjamin. Béla Bartók: A Celebration, p. 83 (Scarecrow Press, 2004).
External links
- Mikrokosmos: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project