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Piano Music of Bela Bartok, Series II | 
 enlarge | Author: Bela Bartok
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 790543
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0486241092
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780486241098
ASIN: 0486241092
Publication Date: January 1, 1982
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Product Description
Second in the Archive Edition incorporating composer's corrections. 85 short pieces: For Children, 2 Elegies, Sonatina, other folk-inspired keyboard work. Translations.
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Great Selection December 21, 2008
This is an excellent book, with a wonderful selection of pieces. For anyone learning to play the piano this pieces will keep you happy at the piano. On the other hand, they are also great compositions that will move your creativity.
Great edition of early Bartok September 17, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great edition of Bartok's early piano music. The level ranges from easy but attractive pieces like the songs in "For Children" (based on Bartok's fascinating versions of Hungarian and Slovak folk melodies), to the more difficult "Two Elegies" and "Rhapsody". It also includes the "Fourteen Bagatelles", "Seven Sketches Op. 9", "Four Dirges", and some other minor pieces. I found a lot of the music absolutely impossible to play, since I'm not an accomplished pianist, but the songs in "For Children" were very attractive, even jazzy. Ignore the title -- most of the songs don't sound like children's music at all. They were the result of Bartok's earliest fieldwork in Hungarian and Slovak folkmusic, which he spent the rest of his life studying, recording, and reworking into distinctively modern forms. Despite the simplicity of the original songs, they led directly to his development as one of the most original and interesting composers of the 20th century.
Excellent Introduction To Bartok July 27, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As this edition contains many pieces for beginners and intermediates, it is a valuable introduction to the tonal world of Bela Bartok. Would be good for recital pieces for students or just to sight read through for more advanced pupils. Some of the pieces sound much more difficult than they are! Highly recommended!
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