Recent Releases & Highlights - Hal Leonard

Solo Literature by Composer
Mikrokosmos
153 Progressive Piano Pieces
Boosey & Hawkes
The definitive edition (1987) of the piano
teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the
composer’s son Peter Bartók. In 1945 Béla Bartók
described Mikrokosmos as a cycle of 153 pieces
for piano written for “didactic” purposes, seeing
them as a series of pieces in many different styles,
representing a small world, or as the “world of the
little ones, the children”.
Volumes with pink covers have text in English,
French, German, and Hungarian. Volumes with
blue covers have text in English, Spanish,
Japanese, and Portuguese.
Béla Bartók:
Mikrokosmos Volume 1
48011048 Pink$7.95
48011582 Blue$9.95
Béla Bartók:
Mikrokosmos Volume 2
48011049 Pink$10.95
48011583 Blue$14.95
Béla Bartók:
Mikrokosmos Volume 3
48011050 Pink$14.95
48011584 Blue$16.95
Béla Bartók:
Mikrokosmos Volume 4
48011051 Pink$14.95
48011585 Blue$14.95
Béla Bartók:
Mikrokosmos Volume 5
48011052 Pink$16.95
48011586 Blue$16.95
Béla Bartók:
Mikrokosmos Volume 6
48011053 Pink$12.95
48011587 Blue$16.95
Béla Bartók:
Roumanian Folk Dances
Revised Edition 1993
edited by Peter Bartók
Boosey & Hawkes
48002467$8.95
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Hits & Rarities
New
Editio Musica Budapest
12 short pieces of intermediate difficulty from a wide
selection of the various styles of Beethoven’s piano
music. Contents: Allegretto c-Moll • Bagatellen
Op. 33, 119, 126 (excerpts) • Walzer Es-Dur • Für
Elise • Allegretto h-Moll.
50486901$14.95
William Bolcom:
Nine New Bagatelles
Edward B. Marks Music Company
Commissioned by the “Friends of Today’s Music”
program of the Music Teachers of California, 2006.
A follow-up to Bolcom’s Nine Bagatelles (00294028).
With composer commentary.
00220161$8.95
William Bolcom:
A 60-Second Ballet
(For Chickens)
Edward B. Marks Music Company
Pianist Guy Livingston commissioned 60 composers
to write a piece that would last 60 seconds. Bolcom’s
entry is whimsical, and a perfect piece for an encore.
00220187$3.95
Wiliam Bolcom/
Curtis Curtis-Smith –
Collusions
Edward B. Marks Music Company
This unique five-movement set was a collaboration
between Bolcom and Curtis-Smith, both on the
faculty at the University of Michigan. For a year,
each composer wrote ten measures before passing
the piece back to the other, making these pieces
true compositional collaborations. It was premiered by James Giles on
November 15, 1998.
00220193$10.95
Joseph Ermend Bonnal:
For My Little Friends
Editions Max Eschig
These six charming teaching pieces, lower
intermediate level, were composed in 1930. After
an intense musical activity in Paris and Bordeaux,
Bonnal (1880-1944) was appointed Director of
Music Conservatoire in Bayonne (France). He was
appointed Inspector for Music in Paris near the end
of his life.
50564804$10.95
Elliott Carter –
Retrouvailles
Boosey & Hawkes
Commissioned for Pierre Boulez’s 75th birthday by
Royal Festival Hall, and first performed in 2000 by
Rolf Hind at South Bank Center, London. Recorded
by Charles Rosen on Bridge Records, and Winston
Choi (l’empreinte digitale). 2 minutes.
48019136$9.95
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