| |
Difino
| • | Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta is a piece of classical music by Béla Bartók. It is one of Bartók's best known pieces.
The score is dated September 7, 1936. It was commissioned by Paul Sacher to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Basel Chamber Orchestra (Bartók also wrote the Divertimento for Sacher three years later).
As its title suggests, the piece is written for string instruments (violins, violas, cellos, double basses) and harp); percussion instruments (xylophone, snare drum, cymbals, tam-tam, bass drum, timpani, piano (which is in fact also a string instrument); and celesta (which is, in fact, a kind of percussion instrument). Bartók divides the strings into two groups which he directs should be placed antiphonally on opposite sides of the stage. In the second and fourth movements, these two groups play different music.
The piece is in four movements, the first and third slow, the second and fourth quick:
·Andante tranquillo
Source: [wikipedia: music for strings, percussion and celesta]
|
alebrije.info
:
alebrijes
:
sites
:
advertising
:
link to us
:
contact
|
|