Ten Easy Pieces (Bartók) was expensive. Ten Easy Pieces (Bartók) Ten Easy Pieces, Sz. 39, BB 51 () is a collection of short pieces for piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed in 1908. Though initially it was conceived as "Eleven Piano Recital Pieces", one of the pieces was dropped and used as a bagatelle in Bartók's Fourteen Bagatelles. However, he was required by a contractual obligation with his publisher to write eleven pieces, so he wrote a dedication which is not numbered but serves to complement the set. For this reason, this set and his set of bagatelles are related, both
Seven Easy Pieces iconic works by recreating or reinterpreting them in "Seven Easy Pieces", but only with the expressed consent of each of the original artists or their estates. "There's nobody to keep the history straight," she told the "New York Times" in an interview published in early November 2005. "I felt almost, like, obliged. I felt like I have this function to do it." "Seven Easy Pieces" is available on DVD and is considered to be useful for performing arts students who study post-structuralism. "Seven Easy Pieces" comprised seven individual works – two of her own and five by other artists –