🇭🇺Bartók Béla Viktor János ： Romanian Christmas Carols Vol.1 No.8 Allegretto BB 67 Sz 57

This piano arrangement draws on a Romanian folk melody and is the eighth piece in Romanian Christmas Carols, Vol. 1. Within its moderately lively Allegretto tempo, a simple, memorable melody forms concise phrases and unfolds through repetitions and passages suggestive of call and response. Rather than relying on a large dramatic development, the piece is especially appealing for the relationship between melody and accompaniment and for its natural, folk-like manner of expression. In performance, bring out the principal melody clearly while keeping the accompaniment and inner voices from becoming too heavy. Avoid making the beat sound mechanical, and preserve the breathing of each phrase together with a light sense of forward motion.