Mikrokosmos

Mikrokosmos PDF Author: Bela Bartok
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486824462
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 81

Book Description
This edition of the Hungarian composer's six-volume cycle of piano studies presents volumes one and two of the series, offering first- and second-year students more than 100 pieces of study material.

Bela Bartok - Mikrokosmos Volume 1 (Blue)

Bela Bartok - Mikrokosmos Volume 1 (Blue) PDF Author:
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
ISBN: 9780851626079
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Classical/Opera Piano Solos

The First Term at the Piano: Eighteen Elementary Pieces

The First Term at the Piano: Eighteen Elementary Pieces PDF Author: Béla Bartók
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457472121
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description
These 18 progressive elementary level pieces by Bela Bartok provide excellent technical and artistic repertoire for the beginning piano student.

Bartók for Piano

Bartók for Piano PDF Author: David Yeomans
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253213839
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
" . . . detailed and thorough . . . a wealth of information . . . David Yeomans deserves our thanks for a job exceedingly well done." —American Music Teacher " . . . a must for pianists . . . " —American Reference Book Annual "David Yeomans's study is certainly to be recommended for all good music libraries, pianists and students of Bartók." —The Music Review "Although there are currently more than 15 books in print about composer Béla Bartók, this short volume is unique in its focus on his complete oeuvre for solo piano. . . . Recommended for pianists, piano teachers, and students from lower-division undergraduate level and above." —Choice " . . . the entire book is indispensable for any of us before we play another Bartók piece." —Clavier "This work collects in one place an enormous number of 'facts' about the piano music of Bartók . . . for planning concerts and student repertoire, and as a survey of an important body of 20th-century music, this listing is valuable." —Library Journal This chronological listing of more than 400 pieces and movements presents in convenient form essential information about each of Bartók's solo piano works, including its various editions, timing, level of difficulty, pertinent remarks by the composer, and bibliographical references to it.

Bela Bart¢k Studies in Ethnomusicology

Bela Bart¢k Studies in Ethnomusicology PDF Author: Bäla Bart¢k
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803242470
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Composer, folklorist, and performer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) is internationally renowned as one of the most important and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he wrote lectures and essays that dealt with virtually every aspect of East European folk music. Many of those essays, previously scattered in specialist journals in four different languages, are collected here for the first time. All are concerned with that branch of musicology within which Bartók was most influential, and for which he is best known: research into folk music, or ethnomusicology. The volume includes a preface by editor Benjamin Suchoff, a leading expert on Bartók’s music and writings. Suchoff examines Bartók’s developing views on the folk-music traditions of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Arab world.

Guide to Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Guide to Bartók's Mikrokosmos PDF Author: Benjamin Suchoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Boosey.

Pieces for Children

Pieces for Children PDF Author: Béla Bartók
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457442087
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Selected from the two volumes of Bartóks For Children, these 42 works were written without octaves to fit the hands of younger players. Each piece has a descriptive title, with half including the words "song" or "dance". Like much of the composer's writing, the pieces directly reflect the use of folk idioms.

The Perfect Wrong Note

The Perfect Wrong Note PDF Author: William Westney
Publisher: Amadeus Press
ISBN: 1574673890
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
(Amadeus). In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example, playing a wrong note can be constructive, useful, even enlightening. The creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class workshop also explores the special potential of group work, outlining the basics of his revelatory workshop that has transformed the music experience for participants the world over. Practicing, in Westney's view, is a lively, honest, adventurous, and spiritually rewarding enterprise, and it can (and should) meet with daily success, which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers, professionals, and students of any instrument will benefit from this unique guide, which brings artistic vitality, freedom, and confidence within everyone's reach.

Essays

Essays PDF Author: Bäla Bart¢k
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261082
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 608

Book Description
The world knows Béla Bartók as a composer. The essays contained in this voluminous compilation disclose a side of the great Hungarian previously known to relatively few persons: Bartók the man of letters. Theorist, performer, collector, scholar, and composer, Béla Bartók is internationally renowned as one of the most important and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he wrote lectures and essays that dealt with virtually every aspect of European music. These essays, previously scattered in specialized journals, deal with the wide range of interests and expertise: folk music and musical folklore, the music of his contemporaries and great predecessors, a brief autobiography, the structure and performance of his own music, the sale of sound recordings, and music education.

Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos Complete

Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos Complete PDF Author: Chester Music
Publisher: Chester Music
ISBN: 1787590968
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Béla Bartók’s six-book Mikrokosmos cycle is here presented for the first time in a superb single volume. Written between 1926 and 1939, this celebrated musical work spans simple études for beginners and complex technical tours de force aimed at skilled pianists. Bartók’s musical microcosm was designed to map and illustrate musical and technical progressions that remain as relevant to musical education today as they were when first published. From pieces suitable for those working towards Grade 1 to complex Grade 8-level pieces it advances through fundamentals such as hand co-ordination, musicality, aural skills and ensemble-playing, to complex and professionally performable concert pieces. Already accomplished players will discover a wealth of material to enjoy both as sight reading practice and as performance pieces. Beginners will find themselves embarking on a musical journey that promises potential mastery of their instrument. Mikrokosmos is a truly indispensable addition to every serious pianist’s library.