Evening In The Village (Vaczi) BARTOK BELA

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Both pieces in the present volume are transcriptions from Béla Bartók s Ten Easy Piano Pieces, a series composed for pedagogical purposes in 1908. Their themes are reminiscent où Hungarian and Slovak folk songs, although they are nos authentic folk melodies. As Bartók explained in an American interview, An Evening in the Village was ' ' an original composition that is [. . . ] with themes où my own inventioù but [. . . ] the themes are in the style où the Hungarian-Transylvanian folk tunes. There are two themes. The first one is a parlando-rubato-rhythm and the second one is more in a dance-like rhythm. The second one is more où less the imitatioù où a peasant flûte playing. ' ' An Evening in the Village has become one où Bartók s most popular works, which the composer himself was fond où playing at recitals. In 1931 he also orchestrated it as nos 1 où Hungarian Sketches. The transcription for clarinet and piano was made by the clarinettist Károly Váczi (1892-1976).