Música para piano, tomo II

Piano Music of Béla Bartók, Series II

Second in the Archive Edition incorporating composer’s corrections. 85 short pieces: ‘For Children,’ ‘Two Elegies,’ ‘Two Rumanian Dances,’ etc.

“It is of great importance,” Bartók wrote, “that anyone who is involved with music should be able to obtain [composers’] works in editions which interpret the author’s intentions, not of such kind that may have been arbitrarily modified or forged by some adapter.” Bartók’s wish has finally been realized in his own work. This collection of early piano music is the second volume in the Bartók Archive Edition, the only edition of the great Hungarian composer to be based on corrections from his memorabilia or original editions in the New York Bartók Archive. Comparison has also been made with Hungarian editions published since 1951, which are based on holdings of the Budapest Bartók Archivum.
It is appropriate to continue the Bartók Archive Edition with a second volume of piano music, for, as Grove’s Dictionary notes: “The pianoforte was his most natural medium of expression. It was the pianoforte that made Bartók express his harmonic thought with such directions.” This volume emphasizes Bartók’s lifelong work both with East European folk music, and with music for children and student pianists. The 85 short pieces in For Children (1908/9) offer melodies and lyrics from Hungarian and Slovakian folk songs. The piano pieces in this volume and in Series I offer young or beginning pianists material that is at once instructive and eye-opening to the sounds of modern music.
Benjamin Suchoff, trustee of the Bartók Estate and professor at the Center for Contemporary Arts and Letters of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, edited this Archive Edition and provided the Introduction, translations of the folk-song texts, and musicological scholarship that will ensure definitive status for this edition. Bartók is a keystone composer of the 20th century, especially for the piano; with this edition, music buyers have the composer’s authentic, authoritative last word.

• I. Let’s Bake Something!  From Hungarian Melodies
• II. Dawn, O day!  From Hungarian Melodies
• III. I lost my young couple  From Hungarian Melodies
• IV. I lost my handkerchief  From Hungarian Melodies
• V. Kitty, kitty  From Hungarian Melodies
• VI. Hey, tulip, tulip  From Hungarian Melodies
• VII. Look for the needle  From Hungarian Melodies
• VIII. “Turos” (Girls’) Game  From Hungarian Melodies
• IX. White lily  From Hungarian Melodies
• X. Walachian Game  From Hungarian Melodies
• XI. I lost my young couple  From Hungarian Melodies
• XII. Chain, chain  From Hungarian Melodies
• XIII. A lad was killed  From Hungarian Melodies
• XIV. The poor lads of Csanad  From Hungarian Melodies
• XV. The street of Istvand  From Hungarian Melodies
• XVI. I never stole in my whole life  From Hungarian Melodies
• XVII. My little graceful girl  From Hungarian Melodies
• XVIII. In the harbor of Nagyvarad  From Hungarian Melodies
• XIX. The inn at Doboz  From Hungarian Melodies
• XX. Drinking Song  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXI. Parsley and celery  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXII. Go to Debrecen  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXIII. Walk this way, that way  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXIV. Water, water, water  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXV. Three apples plus a half  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXVI. Go round, sweetheart, go round  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXVII. My sheep are lost  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXVIII. Laszlo Feher stole a horse  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXIX. Oh! Hey! What do you say?  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXX. They brought up the rooster  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXI. Mother, dear mother  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXII. The sun shines into the church  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXIII. Stars, stars, brightly shine  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXIV. White lady’s eardrop  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXV. I picked flowers in the garden  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXVI. Margitta is not far away  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXVII. When I go up Buda’s big mountain  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXVIII. Ten liters are inside me  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXIX. The cricket marries  From Hungarian Melodies
• XL. May the Lord give  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXXI. Do you go, darling?  From Hungarian Melodies
• XXXXII. Swineherd Dance  From Hungarian Melodies
• 1. If there were cherries  From Slovak Melodies
• 2. Kite settled on the branch  From Slovak Melodies
• 3. Above the tree, under the tree  From Slovak Melodies
• 4. Wedding Song (Hey Lado! Lado!)  From Slovak Melodies
• 5. The peacock flew  From Slovak Melodies
• 6. Rondo (There is an old witch)  From Slovak Melodies
• 7. Rogue’s Song (When I came from the war)  From Slovak Melodies
• 8. Dance Song (Two pigeons sit on the tower of Presov)  From Slovak Melodies
• 9. Children’s Song (Unfold yourself, blossom)  From Slovak Melodies
• 10. Mourning Song (In the barracks of Mikulas)  From Slovak Melodies
• 11. On the field of Bystrov  From Slovak Melodies
• 12. Mother of my lover  From Slovak Melodies
• 13. Anicka Mlynarova  From Slovak Melodies
• 14. Plowing are six oxen  From Slovak Melodies
• 15. Bagpipe Tune (Dance, maiden, dance)  From Slovak Melodies
• 16. Lament  From Slovak Melodies
• 17. The girl was the priest’s maidservant  From Slovak Melodies
• 18. Jeering Song (Once I was your lover)  From Slovak Melodies
• 19. Romance (Bird on the branch)  From Slovak Melodies
• 20. Frisky (Don’t go at dawn, Hanulienka)  From Slovak Melodies
• 21. Funny Story (She flew down and was in tears)  From Slovak Melodies
• 22. Revelry (The lads caught a goat)  From Slovak Melodies
• 23. I am already an old shepherd  From Slovak Melodies
• 24. I passed through the forest  From Slovak Melodies
• 25. Bird on the branch  From Slovak Melodies
• 26. Scherzando  From Slovak Melodies
• 27. Jeering Song  From Slovak Melodies
• 28. Shepherd’s Flute  From Slovak Melodies
• 29. Another Joke  From Slovak Melodies
• 30. Lament (I have wandered a lot)  From Slovak Melodies
• 31. Canon  From Slovak Melodies
• 32. Bagpipe Tune (Little Garden)  From Slovak Melodies
• 33. The Orphan (Hey, forest, green forest)  From Slovak Melodies
• 34. Romance (I know a little forest)  From Slovak Melodies
• 35. Highwayman’s Tune (Janosik is a big bully)  From Slovak Melodies
• 36. If I knew where my darling  From Slovak Melodies
• 37. The Danube’s bank is green at Bratislava  From Slovak Melodies
• 38. Farewell (I look back upon you once more)  From Slovak Melodies
• 39. Ballad (Janko drives out two oxen)  From Slovak Melodies
• 40. Rhapsody (Hey, blow, you summer wind)  From Slovak Melodies
• 41. Rhapsody (Hey, what a beautiful house)  From Slovak Melodies
• 42. Mourning Song  From Slovak Melodies
• 43. Funeral Song (There in the deep valley)  From Slovak Melodies
• 1. Quarrel  From Three Burlesques
• 2. Slightly Tipsy  From Three Burlesques
• 3. Capriccioso  From Three Burlesques
• 1. Adagio  From Four Dirges
• 2. Andante  From Four Dirges
• 3. Poco lento  From Four Dirges
• 4. Assai andante  From Four Dirges
• 1. In Full Flower  From Two Pictures
• 2. Village Dance  From Two Pictures
• 1. Moderato  From The First Term at the Piano
• 2. Moderato  From The First Term at the Piano
• 3. Dialogue  From The First Term at the Piano
• 4. Dialogue  From The First Term at the Piano
• 5. Moderato  From The First Term at the Piano
• 6. Moderato  From The First Term at the Piano
• 7. Folk Song  From The First Term at the Piano
• 8. Andante  From The First Term at the Piano
• 9. Andante  From The First Term at the Piano
• 10. Hungarian Folk Song (Erzsi Virag made her bed)  From The First Term at the Piano
• 11. Minuet  From The First Term at the Piano
• 12. Swineherd’s Dance  From The First Term at the Piano
• 13. Hungarian Folk Song (Where have you been, my lambkin?)  From The First Term at the Piano
• 14. Andante  From The First Term at the Piano
• 15. Wedding Song (The cart rattles)  From The First Term at the Piano
• 16. Peasant’s Dance  From The First Term at the Piano
• 17. Allegro deciso  From The First Term at the Piano
• 18. Waltz  From The First Term at the Piano
• 1. Bagpipers  From Sonatina
• 2. Bear Dance  From Sonatina
• 3. Finale  From Sonatina