Early Version and Revised Version
Contents
On the Complete Critical Edition
Abbreviations and Bibliographical References
Introduction
For Children: Composition and First Edition
Transcriptions and Revisions
The Revised Edition: For Children
Reception History
Later Impressions and Editions
For Children in the Complete Critical Edition
Acknowledgements
Notation and Performance
Bartók’s Notation
The Composer’s Recordings
Piano Notation
Folk Songs as Sources
Titles
Tempo, Metronome Markings, and Duration
Key Signatures and Accidentals
Phrasing
Touch and Accent Signs
Dynamics
Pedal Markings
Fingering
Octaves
For Children in the Classroom and in Concert
For Children. Easy piano pieces (without octaves) based on children’s and folk songs from Hungary (BB 53, early version)
Volume II
Volume IV
For Children (BB 53, revised version)
Volume I Based on Hungarian Folk Tunes
Volume II Based on Slovakian Folk Tunes
Appendix I
Appendix II
Revised Versions for Young People at the Piano
The Earliest Set, Nos. I–IX
Selected Transcriptions of Bartók’s Recordings
CRITICAL COMMENTARY
Prefatory Remarks
Folk Music Sources
Manuscript Sources and Collections
Published Collections
Compositional Sources
Symbols and Sigla
List of Sources
Types of Music Paper
Description of Sources
Sources of the First Edition: Vols. I–II
Sources of the First Edition: Vols. III–IV
Sources of Young People at the Piano
Sources of the Revised Edition
Critical Notes
Gyermekeknek I–II / For Children I
Pro děti III–IV / For Children II