Allegro Barbaro

Béla Bartók

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General Info

Year: 1911/
Duration: c.
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Cost: Score and Parts - | Score Only -

Instrumentation

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Clarinet choir

Errata

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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

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State Ratings

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Performances

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United States Air Force Band Chamber Ensembles – 19 December 2012 (2012 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

For Children (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) (1909/1945/2014)
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 (arr. McGinty) (/2004)
Bartok: Folk Trilogy (arr. McGinty) (1992)
Bartok for Band (arr. Schaeffer) (/1981)
Bartok for Children, three pieces (arr. Finlayson) (1909/1966)
Bartok Sketches
A Bartok Suite (arr. Clark) (1909/1997)
Bear Dance (arr. Leidzén) (1909/1931/1955)
Changing Time (arr. Schaeffer) (1909/1984)
Children's Album (arr. Gordon) (1909/1957)
Country Dance (arr. Henderson, Stoutamire) (1976)
Dance Suite (arr. Suzuki) (1923/2000)
Dance Suite (arr. Vandenberghe) (1923/)
Divertimento (arr. Abe) (1939/2015-2017)
Evening in the Country (arr. Suchoff) (1908/1931/1970)
Evening in the Village (arr. Leidzén) (1908/1931/1955)
Folk Song and Dance (arr. McGinty) (1988)
Folk Song Suite (tr. Erickson) 1909/1968)
Folk Trilogy (arr. McGinty) (1992)
For Children (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) (1909/1945/2-14)
Four Pieces for Band (arr. Suchoff) (1961)
Four Sketches (arr. Schaefer) (1908/1963)
Hungarian Folk Song (arr. Castle) (1975)
Hungarian Folk Suite (arr. Gordon) (1967)
In a Quiet Mood (arr. Applebaum) (1909/1972)
Jocùri Poporale Romanesti (arr. Goto) (1999)
Little Suite (arr. Lijnschooten)
Maypole Dance
The Miraculous Mandarin (arr. Morita) (1918-1924/2017)
Nocturne (arr. Gardner) (1908/1931/1962)
Petite Suite (tr. Cushing) (1936/1963)
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1932)
Play (arr. Pharmer) (1909/1969)
Rhapsody for Children (arr. Erickson) (1909/1969)
Roumanian Folk Dances (arr. Goto). See: Jocùri Poporale Romanesti
Romanian Folk Dances (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Nakamura) (1915/2017)
Second Movement from "Streichquartett nr. 2" (arr. Koh) (1915-1917/2006)
Silly Story (arr. Gordon) (1909/1974)
Song of the Mountain Horn (arr. La Plante) (2013)
Suite No. 14 (1916/)
Swineherd's Dance (arr. Suchoff) (1908/1931/1962)
Three Bartok Themes (arr. Pharmer) (1971)
Three Folk Songs (1907/)
Three Hungarian Songs (arr. Gordon) (1975)
Three Pieces for Children
Two Bagatelles for Band (arr. Gardner) (1970)
Two Pieces (arr. Lijnschooten)
Two Portraits (arr. Hanna)
Two Songs and a Dance (arr. Hastings) (1976)

Resources

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