For Children, Vols. 1 & 2 - The First Term at the Piano

Album by Béla Bartók & Lajos Kertész

For Children, Vols. 1 & 2 — The First Term at the Piano is a collection of pedagogical piano pieces by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, compiled in 1908–1909. The pieces draw on Central European folk melodies, simple modal and diatonic harmonies and clear, didactic textures intended for early-grade students, representing an early phase in Bartók's systematic incorporation of folk material that informed his later ethnomusicological and modernist work.
First released: January 2013

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    No. 1. Children at Play (Allegro)
    0:33
  2. 2.
    No. 2. Children's Song (Andante)
    1:00
  3. 3.
    No. 3. Andante
    0:53
  4. 4.
    No. 4. Pillow Dance (Allegro)
    0:54
  5. 5.
    No. 5. Play (Allegretto)
    1:15
  6. 6.
    No. 6. Study for the Left Hand (Allegro)
    0:49
  7. 7.
    No. 7. Song (Andante grazioso)
    0:37
  8. 8.
    No. 8. Play Song (Allegretto)
    1:46
  9. 9.
    No. 9. Song (Adagio)
    1:09
  10. 10.
    No. 10. Children's Dance (Allegro molto)
    0:41
  11. 11.
    No. 11. Molto sustenuto
    1:15
  12. 12.
    No. 12. Allegro
    1:26
  13. 13.
    No. 13. Ballad (Andante)
    1:07
  14. 14.
    No. 14. Allegretto
    0:31
  15. 15.
    No. 15. Allegro
    0:36
  16. 16.
    No. 16. Old Hungarian Tune (Andante rubato)
    0:47
  17. 17.
    No. 17. Round Dance (Lento)
    1:10
  18. 18.
    No. 18. Soldier's Song (Andante non troppo)
    1:04
  19. 19.
    No. 19. Allegretto
    0:45
  20. 20.
    No. 20. Drinking Song (Allegro)
    0:36
  21. 21.
    No. 21. Allegro robusto
    0:58
  22. 22.
    No. 22. Allegretto
    0:52
  23. 23.
    No. 23. Dance Song (Allegro grazioso)
    0:51
  24. 24.
    No. 24. Andante sostenuto
    1:06
  25. 25.
    No. 25. Parlando
    0:43
  26. 26.
    No. 26. Moderato
    0:50
  27. 27.
    No. 27. Jest (Allegramente)
    0:58
  28. 28.
    No. 28. Choral (Andante)
    1:49
  29. 29.
    No. 29. Pentatonic tune (Allegro scherzando)
    0:55
  30. 30.
    No. 30. Jeering Song (Allegro ironico)
    0:44
  31. 31.
    No. 31. Andante tranquillo
    1:52
  32. 32.
    No. 32. Andante
    1:24
  33. 33.
    No. 33. Allegro non troppo
    0:55
  34. 34.
    No. 34. Allegretto
    0:40
  35. 35.
    No. 35. Con moto
    0:31
  36. 36.
    No. 36. Drunkard's Song (Vivace)
    0:43
  37. 37.
    No. 37. Swinehard's Song
    0:44
  38. 38.
    No. 38. Winter Solstice Song (Molto vivace)
    1:17
  39. 39.
    No. 39. Allegro moderato
    1:59
  40. 40.
    No. 40. Swineherd's Dance (Allegro vivace)
    1:56
  41. 41.
    No. 1. Moderato
    0:35
  42. 42.
    No. 2. Moderato
    0:45
  43. 43.
    No. 3. Parbeszed (Dialogue): Moderato
    0:34
  44. 44.
    No. 4. Parbeszed (Dialogue): Moderato
    0:46
  45. 45.
    No. 5. Moderato
    0:25
  46. 46.
    No. 6. Moderato
    0:45
  47. 47.
    No. 7. Nepdal (Folksong): Moderato
    0:37
  48. 48.
    No. 8. Andante
    0:46
  49. 49.
    No. 9. Andante
    0:40
  50. 50.
    No. 10. Nepdal (Folksong): Allegro
    0:59
  51. 51.
    No. 11. Menuett: Andante
    0:42
  52. 52.
    No. 12. Kanasztanc (Swineherd's dance): Allegro
    1:22
  53. 53.
    No. 13. Hol jartal, baranykam? - nepdal (Where have you been, my lambkin? - folksong): Andante
    0:59
  54. 54.
    No. 14. Andante
    1:02
  55. 55.
    No. 15. Lakodalmas (Wedding dance): Moderato
    0:36
  56. 56.
    No. 16. Paraszttanc (Peasant's dance): Allegro moderato
    0:22
  57. 57.
    No. 17. Allegro deciso
    0:32
  58. 58.
    No. 18. Keringo (Waltz): Tempo di valse
    0:41