Recent discovery from my CD Library...
I happen to have an excerpt from Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta. To me, it's awesome. To other's, it sounds like a train wreck (try listening to John Cage piano sonatas if that's what you're into.)
Other fun times with Bartok...
Allegro Barbaro
Piano Concerto 2
Romanian Folk Dances (Piano and Chamber versions)
Viola Concerto
Divertimiento
Dance Suite (Orchestra)
did he write Bour�e?
Posted by: joydriven at August 7, 2003 08:10 AMHe might have written a bouree. If he did, it's probably in Mikrokosmos, piano works for kids essentially.
Posted by: Ben at August 7, 2003 10:37 AMcall me odd, but i have never gotten into bartok. i have never really been exposed to him either.
(ps- i read out of the silent planet last week and fell in love. thanks for the motivation. i am now in the middle of perelandra)
Posted by: hill at August 7, 2003 07:40 PMokay, then, does bartok's particular bouree go like this, then?
dum da da
dum da da da da
dum da da da da
dum dum
dum da da
dum da da da da
dum da da da da
dum dum
duh da da da da da da
da da da da da doh
duh da da da da da da
da da da da da doh-oh
dum da da
dum da da da da
dum da da da da
dum dum
dum da da
dum da da da da
dum da da da da
dum dum...
if so, i think it might be the one i'm trying to play on my harmonica. long live our mikrokosms. and long live malecandra. which, by the way, or not so by the way, you should be able to view very well this week--something about the best view in 60,000 years. with a small backyard telescope you can see polar caps and surface features. (long live npr, too.)
Posted by: joydriven at August 7, 2003 08:43 PMHe did do a Bouree and it is in Mikrokosmos
Vol 4. #117. Good guess? No, I think it's just divine providence for Joy to become immersed in the world of Bartok.
About to finish Perelandra. I can't say it wasn't harrowing in parts, how the Devil operates...
"On the surface, great designs and an antagonism to Heaven which involved the fate of worlds: but deep within, when every veil had been pierced, was there, after all, nothing but a black puerility, an aimless empty spitefulness content to sate itself with the tiniest cruelties, as love does not disdain the smallest kindness?"
It truly is a battle.
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