Slovak Dance

Slovak Dance, sometimes also incorrectly referred to as Slovakian Dance,[1] is a piece for solo piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was presumably composed in 1923, but it was not published until 1999.

Composition

This scherzo-style composition was meant to be placed between the second and the third movement of Bartók's Dance Suite, but he eventually refused because of his mathematical principles, as placing it in the Suite would ruin the proportion of the whole work. Since Dance Suite was an orchestral suite, this Slovakian Dance remained as a sketch, unpublished and unorchestrated, until his son, Peter Bartók, made slight changes for it to be published in 1999.[2] The movement Nos. 1, 2, and 4 from the Dance Suite contain thematic references to this piece.

As this is one of the sketches that he dismissed, there is no identification number for this composition, and most catalogs do not include it.

Notable recordings

Notable recordings of this work include:

Piano Solo Record Company Year of Recording Format
Jenő Jandó Naxos Records 2005 CD[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Tracklist from the CD 8.554718 from the Naxos catalogue". Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services Ltd. 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ Whitehouse, Richard (2005). 8.554718 - BARTOK, B.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (Jando) - Dance Suite / Romanian Folk Dances. Hong Kong: HNH International Ltd. p. 3. Retrieved July 27, 2011.

See also

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