Dance Suite (Bartok)
Béla Bartók (arr. Eiji Suzuki)
General Info
Year: 1923 / 2000
Duration: c. 16:55
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Bravo Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental
Movements
1. Moderato - 3:42
2. Allegro molto - 2:22
3. Allegro vivace - 3:04
4. Molto tranquillo - 2:37
5. Comodo - 1:19
6. Finale. Allegro - 03:49
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo I-II
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn (or B-flat Soprano Saxophone/B-flat Tenor Saxophone)
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Clarinet
B-flat Clarinet I-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium (div.)
Tuba (div.)
String Bass (div.)
Celesta (or Glockenspiel/Vibraphone/Piano)
Piano
Harp (or Mallet Percussion)
Timpani
Percussion (4 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbal
- Glockenspiel
- Field Drum
- Marimba
- Rute
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-tam
- Tenor Drum
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Béla Bartók composed the Dance Suite in 1923 in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of the cities Buda and Pest, to form the Hungarian capital Budapest.
This suite has six movements, even though some recordings conceive it as one single full-length movement. It consists of five dances with Arabic, Wallachian and Hungarian melodies, and a finale that brings together all the previous thematic sketches.
- Program Note adapted from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Ensemble Liberte Wind Orchestra (Kawaguchi, Japan) (Yujiro Tsuda, conductor) - 21 May 2017
- Dragefjellets Musikkorps Bergen (Norway) (Gary Peterson, conductor) - March 2012
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
- Bartók, B.; Suzuki, E. (2000). Dance Suite [score]. Brain Co.: Hiroshima, Japan.
- "Dance Suite (Bartók)". Wikipedia. Accessed 27 March 2022