Duets for descant recorders
from the Children's and Female Choruses
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Soprano Recorder

SKU: BT.EMBZ14974

From the Children's and Female Choruses. By Marton Kerekfy. By Bela Bartok. EMB. Studies & Exercises. Book Only. Composed 2016. 16 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ14974. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ14974).

The Children's and Female Choruses were composed in a single burst of creative activity at the zenith of Bartok's career, in the summer of 1935, between such masterpieces as the String Quartet No. 5 and the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. These short choral pieces are based on folk texts that Bartok further polished and stylized. The music, however, is wholly the composer's own, although it frequently includes motifs, rhythmic formulas and line structures reminiscent of Hungarian folk songs. Both editions contain nine of the two-part pieces of the set, transcribed idiomatically but faithfully for descant and treble recorders, respectively.

Die Kinder- und Frauenchore entstanden auf dem Zenit der Karriere Bartoks, im Sommer 1935 in einem einzigen schopferischen Schwung inmitten zweier Meisterwerke - dem Streichquartett Nr. 5 und der Musik fur Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta. Diese kleinen Chorstucke basieren auf Volkstexten, die Bartok noch ausfeilte und stilisierte. Die Musik ist dennoch ausschliesslich die individuelle Schopfung des Komponisten, auch wenn in ihr haufig an ungarische Volkslieder erinnernde Motive, Rhythmusformeln und Zeilenstrukturen vorkommen. Beide Ausgaben enthalten neun der zweistimmigen Stucke der Reihe. Siewurden idiomatisch, aber originalgetreu fur Sopran- bzw. Altblockfloteubertragen.

  • To my homeland
  • Candle song
  • Don't Leave Me!
  • The fickle girl
  • Song of Ioneliness
  • Beadbaking
  • Hussar
  • Had I never seen you
  • Canon