Sonatina: For Piano Solo
| By: | Béla Bartók |
| Publisher: | Alfred Music |
| Print ISBN: | 9780757919091 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781457472268 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1999 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Bela Bartok's Sonatina for piano consists of five different folk tunes. In a radio broadcast of the Sonatina in 1944, Bartók described the piece: "This sonatina was originally conceived as a group of Rumanian folk dances for piano… The first movement, which is called "Bagpipers", is a dance – these are two dances played by two bagpipe players, the first by one and the second by another. The second movement is called "Bear Dance" – this was played for me by a peasant violinist on the G and D string, on the lower strings in order to have it more similar to a bear’s voice… And the last movement contains also two folk melodies played by peasant violin players."
Titles:
* I. Dudások (Bagpipes) Allegretto
* II. Medvetánc (Bear Dance) Moderato
* III. Finale. Allegro vivace.