Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta BB 114
Urtext
[str,perc,cel] duration: 26' str.(group 1: vl I/II, va I, vc I, db I – group 2: vI III/IV, va II, vc II, db II) – small drum.cym.tam-tam.big drum.xyl.timp – cel.hp.pno
Description
In 1936 Béla Bartók was commissioned by his Swiss patron Paul Sacher to write the “Music for Stringed Instruments, Percussion and Celesta.” What Bartók created was nothing less than one of the greatest masterworks of the 20th century that beguiles the listener through its extraordinarily refined construction and lushly expressive rhythms and melodies.
Also remarkable is that Bartók jotted down the four-movement orchestral work very rapidly and without a short score. Breitkopf’s new edition is based on the autograph, on the first editions of the conducting and pocket score, and in particular on the composer's personal copy of the pocket score, in which Bartók later entered the corrections that he had discovered - alterations that were taken into consideration for the first time in this new edition.
PB 5555
score
EAN: 9790004213650
116 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 490 g / softbound
PB 5580
study score
EAN: 9790004213902
112 pages / 16.5 x 22.5 cm / 224 g / softbound
OB 5555-12
piano
EAN: 9790004342381
20 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 104 g / stapled
OB 5555-15
violin 1
EAN: 9790004342398
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 86 g / stapled
OB 5555-16
violin 2
EAN: 9790004342404
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 88 g / stapled
OB 5555-17
violin 3
EAN: 9790004342411
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 86 g / stapled
OB 5555-18
violin 4
EAN: 9790004342428
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 87 g / stapled
OB 5555-19
viola 1
EAN: 9790004342435
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 86 g / stapled
OB 5555-20
viola 2
EAN: 9790004342442
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 87 g / stapled
OB 5555-23
violoncello 1
EAN: 9790004342459
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 88 g / stapled
OB 5555-24
violoncello 2
EAN: 9790004342466
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 87 g / stapled
OB 5555-27
double bass
EAN: 9790004342473
12 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 71 g / stapled
OB 5555-28
double bass 2
EAN: 9790004342480
12 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 71 g / stapled
OB 5555-30
drums
EAN: 9790004342497
32 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 158 g / folder
OB 5555-75
harp
EAN: 9790004342503
12 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 70 g / stapled
OB 5555-79
celeste
EAN: 9790004342510
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 87 g / stapled
Description
Description
In 1936 Béla Bartók was commissioned by his Swiss patron Paul Sacher to write the “Music for Stringed Instruments, Percussion and Celesta.” What Bartók created was nothing less than one of the greatest masterworks of the 20th century that beguiles the listener through its extraordinarily refined construction and lushly expressive rhythms and melodies.
Also remarkable is that Bartók jotted down the four-movement orchestral work very rapidly and without a short score. Breitkopf’s new edition is based on the autograph, on the first editions of the conducting and pocket score, and in particular on the composer's personal copy of the pocket score, in which Bartók later entered the corrections that he had discovered - alterations that were taken into consideration for the first time in this new edition.
Table of contents
| 1. | Andante tranquillo |
| 2. | Allegro |
| 3. | Adagio |
| 4. | Allegro molto |