ANNOUNCEMENT: Egon Schiele's portrait of Schoenberg, and his remarkable painting The Family, are actually on display in New York ‐ for one more week! See this provocative show if you can!
This assignment is devoted to the great Hungarian modernist Béla Bartók. Like Stravinsky, Bartók reveled in jarring rhythms and clashing dissonances. At the same time, he was deeply devoted to, and influenced by, Hungarian and Rumanian folk music. If you studied piano as a child, you probably played pieces from his books For Children and Mikrokosmos.
PRINT the questionnaire and fill it out as you LISTEN to Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
played by Murray Perahia & Georg Solti (pianos), David
Corkhill & Evelyn Glennie (percussion)
I: Assai lento ‐ Very slow (12'50)
II: Lento, ma non troppo ‐ Not too slow (6'27)
III: Allegro non troppo ‐ Not too fast (6'37)