Bartók: Rhapsody No.1 for Violin

Includes accompaniments for:

1. Prima parte

2. Seconda parte

2. Seconda parte (alternative)

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These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

Béla Bartók wrote his first Rhapsody in 1928. It is a substantial work in two movements, the first containing a Hungarian melody against a drone-like accompaniment. Bartók provided two different endings for the second movement, and both are included here. The movement itself is formed from a series of new melodies building towards an accelerando.

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Bar 76 (rehearsal mark 12) - click-beats indicate the beats in this bar where violin plays

Bars 84-90: click-beats help keep the pulse in these bars.

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From the 'alternative ending' part at figure 24, crotchet click-beats are used to keep the pulse in various bars where I consider it to be helpful.