Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances Piano Solo Instrument_Viola exploring each one's creative process

exploring each one's creative process

Touch-sensitive keyboard with 48-note polyphony

Fauré presented him with the manuscript in 1898 with the explicit indication “to modify unplayable passages” before using it in the exam

and were not planned as an interconnected work cycle

More than just a catalog of chords

Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances Piano Solo Instrument_Viola exploring each one's creative processBartks Romanian Folk Dances, composed in 1915, are among his best known works. They exist in multiple forms, since as well as several piano arrangements and a later orchestral version of his own there also exist arrangements by his contemporaries that were made with his consent. Today we can even access performances of the dances by Bartk himself; these recordings document varied repeats enriched by octave doublings to make a sort of concert version