44 Duets for Two Violins
Album by Béla Bartók & Iva Bittová & Dorothea Kellerová
44 Duets for Two Violins is a set of pedagogical duets by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1931. The pieces draw on folk-derived modes, modal harmonies and rhythmic vitality in largely contrapuntal two-part writing that progresses in difficulty as a pedagogical sequence and reflects Bartók's interwar interest in combining folk material with modern compositional techniques.
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- 1.44 Duets for Two Violins: Teasing Song1:07
- 2.44 Duets for Two Violins: Maypole Dance0:38
- 3.44 Duets for Two Violins: Transylvanian Dance1:55
- 4.44 Duets for Two Violins: Slovakian Song0:49
- 5.44 Duets for Two Violins: Slovakian Song II0:52
- 6.44 Duets for Two Violins: Wallachian Song0:48
- 7.44 Duets for Two Violins: Hungarian Song0:48
- 8.44 Duets for Two Violins: Play Song1:00
- 9.44 Duets for Two Violins: Midsummer Night Song0:40
- 10.44 Duets for Two Violins: Hay Song0:53
- 11.44 Duets for Two Violins: Harvest Song1:37
- 12.44 Duets for Two Violins: Wedding Song1:30
- 13.44 Duets for Two Violins: Menuetto0:46
- 14.44 Duets for Two Violins: Burlesque0:30
- 15.44 Duets for Two Violins: Enumerating Song1:02
- 16.44 Duets for Two Violins: Dance from Maramaros0:48
- 17.Improvisation I0:37
- 18.44 Duets for Two Violins: Bride's Farewell1:06
- 19.44 Duets for Two Violins: A Fairy Tale1:28
- 20.44 Duets for Two Violins: Ruthenian Song1:22
- 21.44 Duets for Two Violins: Cradle Song1:35
- 22.44 Duets for Two Violins: Ruthenian Kolomeika0:59
- 23.44 Duets for Two Violins: Bagpipes1:55
- 24.44 Duets for Two Violins: Soldier's Song1:12
- 25.44 Duets for Two Violins: Hungarian March0:40
- 26.44 Duets for Two Violins: Hungarian March II0:55
- 27.44 Duets for Two Violins: Wallachian Dance0:50
- 28.44 Duets for Two Violins: A Rhythm Song1:23
- 29.44 Duets for Two Violins: New year's Song2:05
- 30.44 Duets for Two Violins: Hungarian Song II0:46
- 31.Improvisation II0:31
- 32.44 Duets for Two Violins: Sorrow2:18
- 33.44 Duets for Two Violins: Teasing Song0:26
- 34.44 Duets for Two Violins: Limping Dance0:24
- 35.44 Duets for Two Violins: Mosquito Dance0:51
- 36.44 Duets for Two Violins: Rumanian Whirling Dance0:44
- 37.44 Duets for Two Violins: Serbian Dance1:00
- 38.44 Duets for Two Violins: Prelude and Canon2:53
- 39.Improvisation III0:40
- 40.44 Duets for Two Violins: New Year's Greeting II0:54
- 41.44 Duets for Two Violins: New Year's Greeting III0:58
- 42.44 Duets for Two Violins: New Year's Greeting IV1:01
- 43.44 Duets for Two Violins: Arabian Sgon1:18
- 44.44 Duets for Two Violins: Scherzo0:50
- 45.44 Duets for Two Violins: Pizzicato0:46
- 46.44 Duets for Two Violins: Comic Song0:36
- 47.44 Duets for Two Violins: Pillo Dance1:06
- 48.Epilogue0:24













