Bartók, B.: 44 Duets Sz. 98

Edition for two violas, performance score, arranged by Donald Maurice and Claudine Bigelow. Difficulty: advanced.
From the series »Bartók Transcriptions«.

Béla Bartók composed his 44 Violin Duos in 1931, at the urging of the German violin pedagogue Erich Doflein. With two exceptions, all the pieces are based on original folk music themes, most of which the composer himself collected in the course of his numerous collecting trips to the Carpathian Basin and in Algeria. Although conceived as parts of a pedagogically motivated set, these little pieces are highly effective in concert performance as well. The viola transcriptions follow Bartók's original faithfully.

Language: Hungarian/English/German/French.
Edition Musica Budapest EMBZ14970.

Content:

• Matchmaking song
• Maypole Dance
• Menuetto
• Midsummer Night Song
• Slovak Song (1)
• Hungarian Song (1)
• Walachian Song
• Slovak Song (2)
• Play Song
• Ruthenian Song
• Cradle Song
• Hay-gathering Song
• Wedding Song
• Pillow dance
• Soldiers Song
• Burlesque
• Hungarian March (1)
• Hungarian March (2)
• A Fairy Tale
• Alternating Song
• New Year's Greeting (1)
• Mosquito dance
• Farewell to the Bride
• Jeering Song
• Hungarian Song (2)
• Teasing Song
• Limping Dance
• Sorrow
• New Year's Greeting (2)
• New Year's Greeting (3)
• New Year's Greeting (4)
• Dance from Máramaros
• Harvest Song
• Enumerating Song
• Rithenian Kolomeika
• Bagpipes – Variation of no. 36
• Prelude and Canon
• Rumanian Whirling Dance (Invartita batranilor)
• Serbian Dance (Zaplet)
• Walachian Dance
• Scherzo
• Arabian Song
• Pizzicato
• Transylvanian Dance (Ardeleana)