Listening (Allegro barbaro)

I enjoyed this piece because of its interesting driving and rhythmic features. Bartók wrote many phrases in this piece that seem like they would fit into the percussion part in an orchestral arrangement. The piece captured by attention because it had many accents on the up-beats, which created a very unpredictable feeling. This emotion that he created added to his composition because the audience was draw into the idea of, "what was he going to do next". He was drawing the audience in for more and more through his odd patterns. I thought that this was very affective. Additionally, when Aaron performed this piece in class I noticed that for many parts he had to cross his left hand on top of this right. This style of performing further supports the odd way that Bartók wrote his music and how it was displayed.