Mikrokosmos
Subtitle: for piano : critical commentary
By: edited by Yusuke Nakahara = Mikrokosmos : zongorára : Kritikai megjegyzések / közreadja Nakahara Yusuke = Mikrokosmos : für Klavier : Kritischer Bericht / herausgegeben von Yusuke Nakahara
Contributors: Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945, composer
Series: Complete critical edition / Béla Bartók -- volume 41 = -- Zeneműveinek kritikai összkiadása / Bartók Béla -- 41. kötet = -- Kritische Gesamtausgabe / Béla Bartók -- Band 41
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag; Editio Musica Budapest
Published: 2020
Place of publication: München; Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Piano music; Mikrokosmos (Bartók, Béla)
Other titles: Mikrokosmos :; Mikrokosmos : für Klavier : Kritischer Bericht
Notes: The critical commentary volume to accompany the music volume published in v. 40 of the series Complete critical edition/ Bela Bartok. The present edition of Mikrokosmos, containing 153 pieces and 33 exercises and originally published in 6 volumes by Boosey & Hawkes in 1940, consists of 2 volumes: the first volume (i.e. v. 40) presents the main text (the introductory chapters by the editor, Bartok's Preface, and the complete series of pieces followed by the exercises and the original Notes to the first edition), while the second volume (i.e. v. 41) offers the Critical commentary (description of sources, the compositional process and critical notes, including pieces omitted from the first edition)

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Table of contents: title: Compositional sources; title: Description of sources; title: The compositional process; title: Critical notes; title: Appendices