Level 1 Piano - Elementary

SKU: HL.645070

Level 1 Elementary Level. Composed by Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly. 20th Century. Educational Piano. Christmas. Softcover. 24 pages. Schaum Publications, Inc. #1175. Published by Schaum Publications, Inc. (HL.645070).

ISBN 9781495081057. UPC: 008148011759. 9.0x12.0x0.079 inches. Hungarian. Wesley Schaum Elementary Level.

20 Stories based on Christmas legends and traditions from around the world in a workbook format that includes all the notes on the bass and treble cleff staffs. Equal emphasis is placed on both saffs. An excellent tool for improving sight reading and note identification. Includes: Christmas Ghosts (Greece) * Dinner on Straw (Poland) * First Christmas Card (England) * Holly Wreaths (Ireland) * Manger Scenes (Italy) * Summer Christmas (Africa) * Tropical Christmas (Philippines)* and more.

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ934

Composed by Bela Bartok. Educational Tool. Book Only. Composed 1953. 48 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ934. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ934).

English-German-Hungarian.

'This is one of Bartók's most famous series of piano pieces, whose fame is probably greater than either its popularity with pianists, or the frequency with which it occurs on concert programmes. When it was written in 1908, it triggered sensation and scandal in musical circles. The series as a whole is not a true cyclic composition that can only be played in its entirety with movements in the original order. Rather, it is a more loosely-ordered collection, although some of the pieces belong together. However, the varied succession of tempos and characters and general succession from technically easy to more difficult could also be a reason for the volume's ordering.'(HCD32524 Bartók New Series Vol. 24, István G. Németh).

By Bela Bartok. For Piano. Piano Collection. Kalmus Edition. Masterwork. Book. 104 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Piano

SKU: PR.510049550

7 Jazz Improvisations on Classical Pieces. Composed by Bela Bartok, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Benoit Urbain. Collection Florence Aramburu et Anne-Lise Gastaldi. Full score. With Standard notation. Gerard Billaudot Editeur #510-04955. Published by Gerard Billaudot Editeur (PR.510049550).

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ60

Composed by Bela Bartok. Book Only. Composed 1951. 20 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ60. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ60).

English-German-Hungarian.

'Bartók wrote the first dance around the time of the Romanian movements of the 'Seven Sketches', after his first trip collecting Romanian folk music in July-August 1909. The second dance is the fruit of March the following year, and it was only after some time he decided they should be published as a pair. From the beginning, audiences were impressed by the first dance, in the composer's peculiar performance, with its initial drumming, and its driving rhythms. If less popular, compositionally the second dance is more original. He parades and varies his material in a chain form, and this too is reminiscent of the dances heard in the playing of Romanian Transylvanian villagemusicians, which in his scholarly work Bartók called 'motive dances.' (HCD 32525 Bartók New Series Vol. 25, László Somfai).

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ1762

Composed by Bela Bartok. Book Only. Composed 1954. 16 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ1762. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ1762).

English-German.

The work was composed in 1908-1910. 'Bartók may have chosen to call these sketches because most of the pieces are indeed like a painter's sketch for a later, larger work: quickly executed creative works, capturing the magic of the moment.' (HCD 32525 Bartók New Series Vol. 25, László Somfai).

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ12188

By Bela Bartok. By Louis Kohler. Studies & Exercises. Book Only. Composed 1981. 16 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ12188. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ12188).

German-Hungarian.

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ4626

Klavierstücke. Composed by Bela Bartok. Book Only. Composed 1965. 52 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ4626. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ4626).

German-Hungarian.

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ1971

Erste Fassung. Composed by Bela Bartok. Book Only. Composed 1955. 28 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ1971. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ1971).

'The significance of the Rhapsody composed in 1904 in Gerlicepuszta and Pozsony is well shown by the fact that Bartók subsequently reserved the designation 'Opus 1' of his last, mature opus numbering for this piece. By choosing this genre Bartók was clearly following in Liszt's footsteps. But he did not merely follow the Hungarian Rhapsodies with their parading of folkloristic art songs in a virtuoso instrumental fantasy. The formal coherence of Bartók's work allows us to infer the influence of the large-scale Liszt compositions he then knew, such as the B minor Sonata. Unlike Liszt, Bartók builds his Rhapsody not on familiar melodies but on themes of his own invention, yet hisstyle is still that of nineteenth-century folkiness, and draws on the art-music tradition based on the verbunkos and the csárdás.' (HCD 32524 Bartók New Series Vol. 24, István G. Németh).

By Bela Bartok. (Full Score). Boosey and Hawkes Scores and Books. 98 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Piano - Level 3

SKU: FV.FUE-10024

Composed by Hope Lee. Score. Furore Verlag #FUE 10024. Published by Furore Verlag (FV.FUE-10024).

ISBN 979-0-50182-024-5.

New Music for Young Musicians Project, initiated by the Canadian music Centre. Inspired by Bela Bartok's Swine-Herd's Dance.

For Piano and Orchestra. By Bela Bartok. (Score). Boosey and Hawkes Scores and Books. Book only. Size 5.5x7.5 inches. 178 pages. Published by Universal Edition.