Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
For Children No. 8
No. VIII of Bartók's For Children, Volume I, in the original edition (Budapest, 1909), not the 1945 revision: the Hungarian song Ej görbénye, görbénye
No. 8 of 42 in Bartók's For Children (original edition)
- Level
- 2 of 7
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 2/4
- Length
- 73 bars
- Plays in
- 1 to 2 min
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 written408 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand380 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots239 notes
- Right-hand melody183 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 D4 to F5
- Bass clef from D2 to E4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, whole notes, eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 5ths, 6ths, 7ths, 4ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads
- Hands playing together, hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds
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