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Allegro Barbaro
Béla Bartók (arr. Roman)
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General Info
Year: 1911/
Duration: c.
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
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Cost: Score and Parts - | Score Only -
Instrumentation
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Clarinet choir
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Originally a work for solo piano, Béla Bartók's Allegro Barbaro remains one of his most beloved and frequently performed pieces. The composer himself was fond of using the short, fast-paced work as an encore at his recitals. In typical Bartok fashion, Allegro Barbaro utilizes folk elements, combining the pentatonic sound of Hungarian peasant music with the mostly-chromatic Romanian sound. Numerical series like the Fibonacci sequence are used throughout the piece, most easily heard in the pulsating F# minor chords that occur in groups of 3, 5, 8 or 13 bars.
In 1979, the rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer introduced the piece to a new audience when they arranged it for the first track of their debut album. This arrangement for clarinet choir is the work of MSgt. John Romano, himself a member of the U.S. Air Force Band's clarinet section.
- Program note by Brooke Emery
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Audio Links
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State Ratings
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Recent Performances
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- United States Air Force Band Clarinet Choir (Peter J. Folliard, conductor) - 19 December 2012 (2012 Midwest Clinic)
Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- For Children (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) (1909/1945/)
- Romanian Folk Dances (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Nakamura) (1915/2017)
All Wind Works
- Allegro Barbaro (arr. Roman) (1911)
- Allegro Barbaro (arr. Wallace) (1911/1995)
- Bartok Folk Rhapsody
- Bartok for Band
- Bartok for Children, three pieces
- Bartok Sketches
- Bear Dance
- Changing Time
- Children's Album
- Country Dance
- Dance Suite (Bartok)
- Evening in the Country
- Evening in the Village
- Folk Song and Dance
- Folk Song Suite (tr. Erickson) 1909/1968)
- Folk Trilogy
- For Children (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) (1909/1945/)
- Four Pieces for Band (arr. Suchoff) (1961)
- Four Sketches
- Hungarian Folk Song
- Hungarian Folk Suite (arr. Gordon) (1967)
- In a Quiet Mood
- Jocùri Poporale Romanesti (arr. Goto) (1999)
- Little Suite (Bartok)
- Maypole Dance
- Miraculous Mandarin, The
- Nocturne (Bartok)
- Petite Suite (tr. Cushing) (1936/1963)
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (1932)
- Play
- Rhapsody for Children
- Roumanian Folk Dances (arr. Goto). See: Jocùri Poporale Romanesti
- Romanian Folk Dances (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Nakamura) (1915/2017)
- Silly Story
- Song of the Mountain Horn (arr. La Plante) (2013)
- Suite No. 14 (1916)
- Swineherd's Dance
- Three Bartok Themes
- Three Folk Songs
- Three Hungarian Songs
- Three Pieces for Children
- Two Bagatelles for Band
- Two Pieces
- Two Portraits (arr. Hanna)
- Two Songs and a Dance
