Questions tagged [mikrokosmos]
For questions related to Bartók's famous Mikrokosmos (1926–1939), a work for solo piano in six volumes. Questions may also necessitate the bartok tag.
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Full bar rest at the end of piece
Béla Bartok's Mikrokosmos - Vol. I is a book of short and simple, yet quirky piano pieces. Piece No. 24. Pastorale is shown below.
A full bar rest (for both hands) ends the piece. This is something ...
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Weird notation in Bartok's Microcosmos, Book 1, No. 9 [duplicate]
In Bartok's Microcosmos Book 1, Number 9, I found these notes floating between the staves, without any lines.
What do they mean? What notes are supposed to be played?
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Symbol in bar 6 of Mikrokosmos piece “In Dorian Mode” [duplicate]
Today I came across an odd symbol in Béla Bartók's Microkosmos.
The symbol occurs in Book 1, piece 32 "In Dorian Mode", bar 6. It looks like a dashed line that joins a note on the right hand staf and ...
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Play bar 7 of Mikrokosmos piece "In Dorian Mode" [duplicate]
I'm learning piece 32 "In Dorian Mode" of Bartok's Mikrokosmos, and I am puzzled by something at bar 7. Left and right hand staves are both written in the treble clef, and the last note of bar 7 is ...
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Is Mikrokosmos technical enough?
I'm an aspiring Jazz piano beginner but decided to quit using Czerny and Hanon for obvious reasons-hanon especially, because it might ruin my touch, and particularly because nearly everyone in my ...
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Contrary Motion - Can't understand the structure
Can somebody explain how the harmony works in Bartók's Mikrokosmos, BB 105, Vol. 1: No. 17 Contrary Motion (1)?:
It seems that the right hand plays on C key and the left hand alternates between G and ...
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Bartok - Syncopation (1): Meaning of notes in between Grand Staff
Bartok - Mikrokosmos Book 1 - 91)* Syncopation(1)
What's the meaning of the notes in between the Grand Staff?
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What do these square notes mean (in the left hand)?
What are these notes about? I had to learn this piece in 8-27-1963 in my first year at the music conservatory in Bern.
The notes look like square notation, but the music was written in 20th. century.
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Unconventional key signature: sharps on F & G only?
This is from Bartók's Mikrokosmos, piece number 44.
I must have come across this a long time ago and didn't understand it, so I crossed it off. 4 years down the line and I still don't get it.
What is ...
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Bartok Mikrokosmos Book 3, no. 70
I have recently been trying to master this piece from Bartok's Mikrokosmos, and at first sight, it appeared daunting due to the fact that the right-hand part is in B major and the left-hand part is in ...
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Bartok - Mikrokosmos - Book 1 - 10 "With alternate hands": Thumb on a black key?
I have a question about the 10th exercise in Bartok's Mikrokosmos book 1 ("With alternate hands"):
In the key signature the A's are indicated to be played flat.
The left hand starts with it's fifth ...
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Odd symbol in Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos Book 1
Today I came across an odd symbol in Béla Bartók's Microkosmos.
The symbol occurs in Book 1, Score 21, Measure 8, at the end of a phrasing slur.
It looks like a vertical bar that crosses only the ...
