Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
For Children No. 11
No. XI of Bartók's For Children, Volume I, in the original edition (Budapest, 1909), not the 1945 revision: the Hungarian song Elvesztettem páromat in a second setting (No. III is the first)
No. 11 of 42 in Bartók's For Children (original edition)
- Level
- 4 of 7
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 2/4
- Length
- 30 bars
- Plays in
- about 1 min
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 105: the middle speed of the 46 pieces in 2/4 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
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Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written165 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand153 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots93 notes
- Right-hand melody66 notes
To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from B3 to D5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from D2 to D4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, octaves, 6ths, 5ths
- Chords: inverted triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from Rozsnyai Károly, Budapest (printed by C. G. Röder, Leipzig–Budapest), 1909, plate R.K. 376 (scan on IMSLP), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Béla Bartók died in 1945. Credits