Romanian Folk Dances

Item details

Description +
- Arranged by Jason Baker
  Duration: 6 min.
  
  Béla Bartók composed Romanian Folk Dances for solo piano in 1915. The original composition is comprised of six short movements, each based on authentic Romanian melodies. Both the composer and others have since arranged it for various other instruments. This arrangement for keyboard percussion ensemble incorporates dances 1-4 and 6, omitting the fifth dance Poarga Românească. The dances are not presented in this edition as separate movements, but rather in a through-composed manner, separated by brief fermatas.
Instrumentation +
- Percussion Ensemble:
  
  1 Glockenspiel
  2 Vibraphones
  1 Xylophone
  4 Marimbas (playable on two low A instruments)
About the composer +
- Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.
Reviews +
- To come.
Credits +
- Front Cover graphics and layout: Gaia Gomes
  Photo: Mississippi State University Public Relations Office
  Engraving: Jason Baker / Ary Golomb
  Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
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