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Allegro Barbaro and Other Short Works for Solo Piano
Contributor(s): Bartók, Béla (Author)
ISBN: 0486401103     ISBN-13: 9780486401102
Publisher: Dover Publications
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 1998
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Annotation: This treasury of piano works from one of the 20th century's most influential composers includes the dancelike Allegro Barbaro,"" a sonorous, boisterous piece of power and bravura; "15 Hungarian Peasant Songs; " "6 Rumanian Folk Dances; " "20 Rumanian Christmas Carols; " and 8 Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs. Musical gems for pianists at intermediate and advanced skill levels.
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Musical Instruments - Piano & Keyboard
- Music | Printed Music - Piano & Keyboard Repertoire
- Music | Genres & Styles - Classical
Dewey: 786.2
LCCN: 99477844
Series: Dover Music for Piano
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 9.03" W x 11.94" (0.70 lbs) 112 pages
 
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An outstanding authority on the folk music of Central and Eastern Europe, Hungarian composer B la Bart k (1881-1945) explored the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic vocabulary of these regions, evolving a terse, vibrant, and unique musical language in his own works.
This important compilation of Bart k's short works for piano contains the Allegro Barbaro, a sonorous, boisterous piece of power and bravura; 6 Romanian Folk Dances; 20 Romanian Christmas Carols; 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, a connected cycle of short folk-tune settings; the 4-part Suite, Op. 14; the Three Etudes, Op. 18; and 8 Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20. Highly dissonant, individual, and marked in character, the tunes in the connected cycle of the Improvisations represent a high point in Bart k's treatment of folk materials.
These short pieces are an ideal and fully representative introduction to the music of one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century -- an attractive repertoire for intermediate and advanced pianists.