Oboe and Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ2467
Composed
by Bela Bartok. EMB Music
of Bela Bartok. Book
Only. Composed 1958. 8
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ2467.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ2467).
English-German-Hungari
an.
An ABRSM
syllabus title 2014-21,
Grade 6.From 1906 on
Béla Bartók was
collecting folksongs on a
regular basis. It was in
1907, during his first
collecting trip to
Transylvania, that he
jotted down those three
melodies in
Gyergyóteker patak, Cs
k, which he both provided
with piano accompaniment
(From Gyergyó) and
arranged for solo piano
(Three Hungarian
Folksongs from Cs k) in
the same year. The
melodies were played by a
''sixty-year old man'' on
a peasant flute. In 2015
we are launching a series
entitled Bartók
Transcriptions for Music
Students to mark the 70th
anniversary of the
composer s death. This
involves reissuing our
tried publications, and
publishing some
further,new
transcriptions that
fulfill in every respect
the strict aesthetic
demands of the earlier
ones. We trust these
publications will allow
us to introduce still
more music students to
the realm of one of the
great geniuses of
20th-century music.