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...

• Thirds against a Single Voice
• Hungarian Dance
• Chord Study
• Melody against Double Notes
• Thirds
• Dragons' Dance
• Sixths and Triads
• Hungarian Song
• Triplets
• In Three Parts
• Little Study
• Five-tone Scale
• Hommage a J. S. B.
• Hommage a R. Sch.
• Wandering
• Scherzo
• Melody with Interruptions
• Merriment
• Broken Chords
• Two Major Pentachords
• Variations
• Duet for Pipes
• In Four Parts (1)
• In Russian Style
• Chromatic Invention (1)
• Chromatic Inventi...