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Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

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The third movement is a rondo-like dance, starting and finishing in C major. The pianos introduce the movement, followed by the xylophone. At the end of the work the last notes of the pianos die away, there is a concluding duet for snare drum and cymbal, and the sonata ends extremely quietly.
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relationship is not unusual for Bartók; it may be found in many of his other compositions, including the first movement of his well-known work,
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concert on 14 November 1942, with percussionists Ernest Gillegin and Frederick Bradshaw, the then husband and wife piano team of
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time. The movement is also untypical of classical sonata form in that it constitutes half the playing time of the whole work.
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in 1940, with the percussionists Saul Goodman and Henry Deneke. It has since become one of Bartók's most performed works.
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The score requires four performers: two pianists and two percussionists, who play seven instruments between them:
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This movement displays the classical "middle movement" ternary A–B–A form. It is an example of Bartók's
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In 1940, at the suggestion of his publisher and agent, Heinsheimer, Bartók orchestrated the sonata as
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and ending in C major, with excursions into several unexpected keys in between. This structural
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Peters, Rainer. Notes to Neos CD 20901, "Concerti I: Mozart – Liszt – Bartók" (2010)
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110, BB 115, is a musical piece written by Hungarian composer
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The first movement is in a modified version of traditional
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Kárpáti, János; MacNicol, Fred; Steiner, Maria (1994).
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Cross, Lowell. Notes to Music and Arts CD 648 (1990)
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Index

Béla Bartók

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Basel
Sz.
Béla Bartók
sonata
Ditta Pásztory-Bartók
International Society for Contemporary Music
Basel
Town Hall
timpani
bass drum
cymbals
triangle
snare drum
tam-tam
xylophone
movements
First movement (excerpt)
glissandos
media help
sonata form
tritone
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
"night music" idiom
Royal Albert Hall
Royal Philharmonic Society
Louis Kentner
Ilona Kabos

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