Search our Piano catalog for:
Product Information
Mikrokosmos: 153 Progressive Piano Pieces in 6 Volumes, Vol 1
| Composer: | Bartok, Bela |
| Editor: | Peter Bartok |
| Instrumentation: | Piano solo |
| Publisher: | Boosey & Hawkes |
| Item Code: | 48011048 |
RCM Level:  |
Selections in RCM Celebration Series Level 2 |
| Category: | Print music |
| Description: | The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartók. In 1945 Béla Bartók described Mikrokosmos as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for “didactic” purposes, seeing them as a series of pieces in many different styles, representing a small world, or as the “world of the little ones, the children”. Stylistically Mikrokosmos reflects the influence of folk music on Bartok's life and the rhythms and harmonies employed create music that is as modern today as when the cycle was written. The 153 pieces making up Mikrokosmos are divided into six volumes arranged according to technical and musical difficulty. Major teaching points highlighted in Mikrokosmos 1: Unison melodies, Question and answer, Imitation and Inversion. <br><br><b>Volume with pink covers have text in English, French, German, and Hungarian.</b> |
Table of Contents
- Canon and the Lower Fifth
- Canon at the Octave
- Change of Position
- Chorale
- Contrary Motion
- Dance in Canon Form
- Dotted Notes
- Four Unison Melodies
- Free Canon
- Imitation and Counterpoint
- Imitation and Inversion
- Imitation and Inversion II
- Imitation Reflected
- In Dorian Mode
- In Phrygian Mode
- Parallel Motion
- Parallel Motion with Change of Position
- Pastorale
- Question and Answer
- Reflection
- Repetition
- Repetition II
- Six Unison Melodies
- Slow Dance
- Syncopation
- Syncopation II
- Village Song
- With Alternate Hands