By Bela Bartok.

Two pieces of scherzo character in triple time flank a slower movement in duple time. The first burlesque entitled 'Quarrel' is a dispute between two opposing characters, with grimaces and taunts. The second burlesque, with the subtitle 'Slightly Tipsy' is one of Bartók's ingenious programme music miniatures, with characteristic performance indications. The figure appearing in a stumbling rhythm begins to sing indifferently, then continues coarsely. By the end of the middle section, to be played in dry tone, our hero collapses completely, and takes leave as a pitiful figure. Finally, the third burlesque, Molto vivo, capriccioso, stimulates the imagination: one can detect in it the grotesque rush of the last bagatelle.