SKU: TM.01913XSC
Sandra Dackow Little Known Gem - Grade IV+. Sc in set. Adapted by Darvas.
SKU: BT.DHP-1094701-060
ISBN 9789043131483. 12 X 9 inches. English-German.
Transsylvanië is de oude naam voor de huidige regio Zevenburgen in Roemenië. Transylvania is de titel van deze suite met vier dansen uit de Balkan, waarvan de temperamentvolle muziek en variabele ritmiek beroemd is. Het werk begintmet een Vranje, een dans in een 9/8-maat, genoemd naar een stad in het noordoosten van Siberië. Vervolgens klinkt het Macedonische volkslied Aide Jano. Een dans met een zeer verfi jnde, melancholische melodie, die voortdurend ineen licht veranderde vorm herhaald wordt. Deze dans houdt zijn rust door een gelijkmatig, vloeiende 7/8-maat. De derde dans is een Biserka, een ritmische en licht swingende Servische dans in een gematigde driekwart. Tot slot de dansTransylvanian Joe, een romantische dans uit Zevenburgen. Deze dans begint langzaam, maar stijgt in tempo en dynamiek om tenslotte uit te monden in een luide, krachtige en virtuose fi nale.Transsylvanien ist die Heimat des berüchtigten Grafen Dracula und auch der Titel dieser Suite aus vier Tänzen aus dem Balkan, dessen Musik für ihre temperamentvolle und variable Rhythmik berühmt ist. Zuerst erklingt ein Vranje, ein serbischer Tanz im 9/8-Takt. Darauf folgt das mazedonische Volkslied Aide Jano mit einer sehr feinsinnigen, melancholischen Melodie, die fortlaufend in leicht veränderter Form wiederholt wird. Der dritte Tanz ist eine Biserka, ein serbischer Tanz im gemäßigten Dreiertakt, der trotz seiner relativen Gemächlichkeit betont rhythmisch und leicht beschwingt gespielt werden sollte. Zum Schluss erklingt der rumänische VolkstanzTransylvanian Joe, der sich in Tempo und Dynamik bis hin zu einem kraftvollen, virtuosen Finale steigert. La Transylvanie est surtout connue l'étranger par association avec le légendaire vampire Dracula. Dans cette région cachée au milieu de la Roumanie, les traditions rurales et les folklores roumains comme hongrois sont particulièrement vivants. Transylvania de Helmut Quakernack est une suite de quatre danses et airs de danse des Balkans (Vranje - Aide Jano - Biserka - Transylvanian Joe). La musique est gaie, virevoltante et pourtant pleine de mélancolie et de nostalgie. Difficile de résister au charme balkanique.
SKU: HL.50510086
ISBN 9790080400715. UPC: 073999621211. 5.5x8.0x0.091 inches. Hungarian, English, German. Bela Bartok.
'Dances of Transylvania is the orchestral version of 'Sonatina' (1915). In Sonatina, Bartok had arranged Romanian instrumental (chiefly bagpipe) music. The three movements of the work, 'Bagpipers', 'Bear Dance' and 'Finale' comprise five melodies. Bartok explained that each of the two melodies of the first movement had been played by two pipers, the second by a peasant violinist using the lower strings of the instrument to reproduce the sounds of a bear, and the two melodies of the 'Finale' again by two violinists. In the orchestral version Bartok was out to reproduce the original sonority created by the peasants.' (HCD 32505 Bartok New Series Vol. 5, Virag Buky).
SKU: BT.DHP-1094701-160
12 X 9 inches. English-German.
SKU: 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).
SKU: AP.36-60710007
ISBN 9798888521687. UPC: 676737816278. English.
In the years preceding World War I, Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók (1881-1945) took trips to the Transylvanian region to explore the musical traditions of the Romanian population. Following a two-year depression caused by the war, as well as some professional setbacks, he returned to composition. The Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, emerged in 1915, bearing a strong influence from his experiences as an ethnomusicologist. They comprise 6 dances, all based on folk tunes that Bartók had recorded and transcribed. In 1917, he arranged a version for full orchestra. Hungarian violinist and composer Zoltán Székely (1903-2001) transcribed these six short movements for violin and piano in 1926, which are offered here in this reprint edition. Movements: 1. Joc cu bâta (Stick Dance), 2. Brâul (Sash Dance), 3. Topogó / Pê-loc (In One Spot), 4. Bucsumí tánc / Buciumeana (Dance from Bucsum), 5. Poarga româneasca (Romanian Polka), 6. Aprózó / Maruntel (Fast Dance).
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SKU: BT.EMBZ20083
English-Hungarian.
Bartók's Mikrokosmos has been one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire for 80 years - and yet it is also far more than a classical piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organized in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing but also with the fundamentals of composition - from Imitation and Inversion, Ostinato, and Free Variations, concerning compositional technique, to mood pieces and pieces with programmatic ideas such as Notturno, Boating, From the Diary of a Fly, or the famous Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. Mikrokosmos first appeared in 1940 in six volumes. Based on volume 40 of the Bartók CompleteEdition published in 2020(Z. 15040), the present Urtext edition offers the series gathered in three volumes. This edition includes Bartók's preface, exercises, and notes written for the first edition. Furthermore, it also features a preface and comments by the editor, which not only discuss the genesis and the compositional sources but also provide performers, teachers and pupils alike, with authentic and detailed information about Bartók's notation and the specific performing problems of Mikrokosmos.
SKU: BT.EMBZ2589
English-German.
Bagpipers is the first movement of the three-movement Sonatina composed in 1915 (1. Bagpipers, 2.Bear Dance and 3. Finale). The composer said of the piece, ''Originally I planned a group of Romanianfolk dances for piano. I selected three parts of this and called it Sonatina. The first movement, Bagpipers[...] consists of two dances played by two bagpipers.'' The piece is based on a couple dance fromTransylvania, the ardeleana (also known as the kanászos), while the middle section was inspired bythe bagpipe playing of a middle-aged man recorded by Bartók in Váncsfalva (now Oncesti) of Bihar County during February 1910. In 1931, Bartók arranged it for symphony orchestraunder the title Dances from Transylvania. This arrangement for oboe and piano was made by Liszt Prize-winningoboist Tibor Szeszler (1919 1992).
SKU: TM.01913SET
SKU: HL.50606510
ISBN 9781705190739. UPC: 196288126867.
Bartók composed the Sonatina for solo piano in his 'Romanian year' of 1915; this was when he also composed the set of Romanian Folk Dances and the Romanian Christmas Carols. In this relatively short piano piece (lasting three to four minutes), the composer used instrumental folk music collected in Transylvania. In the first movement, Bartók conjures up two bagpipes, and, in the second, a fiddler playing for a bear dance. The first edition of the Sonatina was published by Rózsavölgyi in 1919, and the composer premieredthe work in 1920 in Pozsony (Bratislava). This separate print is based on volume 38 of the Bartók Complete Critical Edition published in 2019, in which Henle Verlag of Munichand Editio Musica Budapest published the piano works composed between 1914 and 1920. The musical text is accompanied by a preface in English and Hungarian by László Somfai, and by editorial remarks which not only discuss the sources but also offer practical advice for performers. Contents: 1. Bagpipers 2. Bear Dance 3. Finale.
SKU: BT.EMBZ40071
'Dances of Transylvania is the orchestral version of 'Sonatina' (1915). In Sonatina, Bartók had arranged Romanian instrumental (chiefly bagpipe) music. The three movements of the work, 'Bagpipers', 'Bear Dance' and 'Finale' comprise five melodies. Bartók explained that each of the two melodies of the first movement had been played by two pipers, the second by a peasant violinist using the lower strings of the instrument to reproduce the sounds of a bear, and the two melodies of the 'Finale' again by two violinists. In the orchestral version Bartók was out to reproduce the original sonority created by the peasants.' (HCD 32505 Bartók New Series Vol. 5, Virág Büky).
