Béla Bartók (1881–1945)

Romanian Folk Dance No. 2, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Bartók wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 36 of the piece's 106 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 2 of 7, where the piece as written is level 3.

Level: 2 of 7
As written: Level 3
Notes: 70 of 106
Key signature: no sharps or flats
Time: 2/4
Length: 16 bars

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The whole easy version70 notes

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The first 8 bars of Romanian Folk Dance No. 2, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 3, and all 4 of its versions are on Romanian Folk Dance No. 2's page.

Score typeset by John Mamoun for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Béla Bartók died in 1945. Credits