Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
For Children No. 5
No. V of Bartók's For Children, Volume I, in the original edition (Budapest, 1909), not the 1945 revision: the Hungarian song Cickom, cickom
No. 5 of 42 in Bartók's For Children (original edition)
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 116: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Allegretto. 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 written326 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand256 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots196 notes
- Right-hand melody146 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 2, 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 A3 to C5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from G2 to C4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 3rds (skips), 5ths, octaves, 7ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads
- Hands playing together, hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms
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