Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
For Children No. 17
No. XVII of Bartók's For Children, Volume I, in the original edition (Budapest, 1909), not the 1945 revision: the Hungarian song Kis kece lányom
No. 17 of 42 in Bartók's For Children (original edition)
- Level
- 5 of 7
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 2/4
- Length
- 19 bars
- Plays in
- about 1 min
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 71: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Adagio. 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 written192 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand169 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots108 notes
- Right-hand melody92 notes
The easy version, the melody and a simpler left hand at level 4, engraved on its own page.
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 B4, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C2 to E4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 5ths, 6ths, 3rds (skips), 7ths, 4ths
- Chords: inverted triads, 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