Informationen zu "For children vol.1 for piano"
Verlag: Edition Musica Budapest
Verlagsnummer: Z20038
EAN: 9790080200384
ISMN: M-080-20038-4
Beschreibung
Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908
and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes,
comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak folk song arrangements. After
moving to America, Bartók considered it important to produce new editions of
his earlier works. Thus in autumn 1943, together with his new publisher
Boosey & Hawkes, he planned a new edition of For Children, and to this end
completely revised the collection. Although Bartók had already completed his
revision by the end of 1943, the revised edition was only issued in 1946. The
pieces were published without titles in the first edition, but the folksong
lyrics were included. These lyrics, deemed unnecessary for the non-Hungarian
audiences, were not taken over to the American revised edition however, a
significant number of pieces were provided with a title conveying their mood
and their background in folk music and folk life. The present edition - which
contains the same scores as those in Volume 37 of the Béla Bartók Complete
Critical Edition (Z. 15037) - is based on the revised version that the
composer made in 1943 for the new edition, to which he also referred to as
''corrected''. We have added Hungarian translations to the English titles but
we have also restored the original collection of folk song texts with
parallel English translations. The pieces discarded from the revised version,
as well as early versions that are significantly different from the revised
version, are included in the Appendix. The Appendix also contains two
transcriptions of Bartók's recordings from 1945 that show typical concert
variants of For Children. This publication contains a preface and editorial
comments in both Hungarian and English.
1. Children At Play
2. Children's Song
3. Pillow Dance
4. Play
5. Study For The Left Hand
6. Play Song
7. Children's Game
8. Song
9. Children's Dance
10. Ballad
11. Old Hungarian Tune
12. Round Dance
13. Soldiers' Song
14. Drinking Song
15. Dance Song
16. Jest
17. Choral
18. Pentatonic Tune
19. Jeering Song
20. Drunkard's Song
21. Swine-herd's Song
22. Winter Solstice Song
23. Swine-herd's Dance
