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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer’s son Peter Bartk. (English/French/German/Hungarian text).
In 1945 Bela Bartok describedMikrokosmosas 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”. StylisticallyMikrokosmosreflects 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 upMikrokosmosare divided into six volumes arranged according to technical and musical difficulty.
Major teaching points highlighted in Mikrokosmos 2:
Staccato, legato
Accompaniment in broken triads
Accents
