Traditioner af swenska folk-dansar, Part 1 No. 17

Traditional, arr. Olof Åhlström

First published: 1814
Key: D minor
Style: Classical
Level: Level 3
Roughly: RCM 3 · ABRSM 3 · Trinity 3 · Henle 2
Lesson: 3.2 Keep the beat through syncopation
Musicianship: 3.2 Syncopation
Focus: Maintain the buoyant triple-metre dance pulse and clear two-hand phrasing.

What its lesson teaches

3.2 Keep the beat through syncopation

Study a Swedish folk dance in D minor from Olof Åhlström’s keyboard collection of 1814 (Traditioner af Swenska Folk-Dansar, part 1 No. 17), in 3/4. In bars 1 and 2 the left hand plays a chord on beat 1, strikes it again on the half beat after it and holds it across beat 2: keep counting the beat while those chords land between the beats, and let them lean a little without rushing. The sforzando card shows the printed sign for such a sudden stress; this edition prints none, so place the weight by ear. Its three trill signs are ornaments the Method teaches at Level 4, so they are optional for now. At the keyboard: clap the pulse under a syncopation.

Ideas: Syncopation
Sforzando, subito and sudden contrasts
Theory cards: Syncopation
Sforzando and sudden changes
Technique: D harmonic minor scale, hands separately, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Mutopia Project · CC BY 2.5

Traditioner af Swenska Folk-Dansar, 1st part, nr 17

Typeset by Erik Sjölund.

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The other lesson pieces of Level 3

Kleine Studie (Little Study), Op. 68 No. 14, Robert Schumann
Innocence, Op. 100 No. 5, Friedrich Burgmüller
Rondo in C major, Op. 42 No. 1, Johann Baptist Vanhal
Minuet in G minor (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach), BWV Anh. 115, Christian Petzold
La gracieuse, Op. 100 No. 8, Friedrich Burgmüller
Album for the Young, Op. 39 No. 5: March of the Wooden Soldiers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sonatina in C major, Op. 36 No. 1: I. Spiritoso, Muzio Clementi
A New Irish Tune (Lilliburlero), Z.646, Henry Purcell
Strutting Rag March, written for the Method

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