Wiener Urtext Edition

Composer: Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945)
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano

Worldwide first Urtext edition of Bartok's Mikrokosmos - Volume 1 (comprises books 1 and 2 of the original edition)

Bela Bartok's Mikrokosmos is one of the key works of 20th-century piano music. The repertoire comprises educational pieces 'from the very first beginning' as well as concert literature, thus making this work an indispensable companion to piano lessons. The work is now available for the first time ever as an Urtext edition in three volumes. Besides the first 66 pieces "from the very beginning", volume 1 contains two so far unpublished pieces that were recorded already before publication and can be found on YouTube.

The 66 pieces comprise - according to Bartok himself - the repertoire for the first year of teaching. The first volume also includes the special versions of the pieces "Waves", "In Transylvanian Style" and "In Oriental Style". Bartok's comments on each piece of Mikrokosmos, added in 1944, as well as notes on study and interpretation based on the sources, a glossary of unusual performance indications and a facsimilie of the engraver's copy of the pieces No. 37-39 round off this unique Urtext edition.

• Worldwide first Urtext edition
• In three volumes as originally envisaged by Bartok
• With hitherto unpublished pieces
• With Bartok's complete notes on all pieces
• With a glossary of unusual performance indications
• With Notes on Study and Interpretation
• Clearly printed in user-friendly page layout

Contents:

• Six Unison Melodies
• Dotted Notes
• Repetition (1)
• Syncopation (1)
• With Alternate Hands
• Parallel Motion
• Reflection
• Change of Position
• Question and Answer
• Village song
• Parallel Motion and Change of Position
• Contrary Motion
• Four Unison Melodies
• Imitation and Counterpoint
• Imitation and Inversion (1)
• Pastorale
• Imitation and Inversion (2)
• Repetition (2)
• Syncopation (2)
• Canon at the Octave
• Imitation Reflected
• Canon at the Lower Fourth
• Little Dance in Canon Form
• In Dorian Mode
• Slow Dance
• In Phrygian Mode
• Chorale
• Free Canon
• Appendix (Exercises)
• In Lydian Mode
• Staccato and Legato (1)
• Staccato and Legato (2)
• In Yugoslav Mode
• Melody with Accompaniment
• Accompaniment in Broken
• In Hungarian
• Contrary Motion
• Meditation
• Increasing Diminishing
• Big Fair
• In Mixolydian Mode
• Crescendo Diminuendo
• Menuetto
• Waves
• Unison Divided
• In Transylvanian Style
• Chromatic
• Triplets in Lydian Mode
• Melody in Tenths
• Accents
• In Oriental Style
• Major and Minor
• Canon with Sustained Notes
• Pentatonic Melody
• Minor Sixths in Parallel Motion
• Buzzing
• Line versus Point
• Dialogue
• Melody Divided
• Special Versions for Peter Bartok
  • Waves
  • In Transylvanian Style
  • In Oriental Style
• Unpublished Pieces from Mikrokosmos
• Bela Bartoks Comments
• Notes on Study and Interpretation
• Critical Notes