Bartók's Mikrokosmos has been one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire for 80 years - and yet it is also far more than a "classical" piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organized in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing but also with the fundamentals of composition - from "Imitation and Inversion," "Ostinato," and "Free Variations," concerning compositional technique, to mood pieces and pieces with programmatic ideas such as "Nottur...

• Unison Melodie
• Dotted Notes
• Repetition (1)
• Syncopation (1)
• With Alternate Hands
• Parallel Motion
• Reflection
• Change of Position
• Question and Answer
• Village Song
• Parallel Motion and Change of Position
• Contrary Motion (1)
• Imitation and Counterpoint
• Imitation and Inversion (1)
• Pastorale
• Imitation and Inversion (2)
• Repetition (2)
• Syncopation (2)
• Canon at the Octave
• Imitation Reflected
• Canon at the Lower Fifth
• Little Dance in Canon Form ...