Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 No. 10 — Kinderlied (Child’s Song)

Ferdinand Beyer (1,803–1,863)

Key: C major
Style: Studies
Level: Foundation
Roughly: RCM Prep A–B · ABRSM Initial · Trinity Initial
Lesson: F.2 Keep a steady pulse
Musicianship: F.2 A steady pulse
Focus: Elementary four-hand ensemble, steady pulse and note values

What its lesson teaches

F.2 Keep a steady pulse

Play only the pupil's left-hand repeated-G4 line in bars 1–16 of Beyer's Op. 101 No. 10 while the app plays the other part. Count steadily through quarter, half and whole notes and silence, keep going with the other part even after a slip, then finish with one complete pulse-part take—not a performance of the two-hand pupil score. Little Clock is the solo alternative.

Ideas: Pulse and beat
Note values
Performance and recovery
Playing with others
Theory cards: The beat and note values
Playing with a partner
Performance mode: one take
Technique: C major five-finger pattern, hands separately

Edition and licence

Score: Musalea, from a public-domain edition · public domain

Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101, No. 10 — Kinderlied (Child’s Song)

Edition: Leipzig: C.F. Peters, Adolf Ruthardt, 1895, edition 2721, plate 8033

Published: 1895

Source: https://archive.org/download/imslp-im-klavierspiel-op101-beyer-ferdinand/PMLP31149-F_Beyer-Op101.pdf

Public-domain source edition(s).

Checked bar by bar against C.F. Peters, Leipzig, 1895, plate 8033, ed. Adolf Ruthardt (IMSLP PMLP31149, archive.org), pp. 22-23, 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 8 bars corrected (Primo bar 8; Secondo bars 8 and 11-16).

Adapted by Musalea: corrected from the print, converted to MusicXML and prepared for interactive practice.

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The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 3, Cornelius Gurlitt
The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 4, Cornelius Gurlitt
Raindrops and Ribbons, written for the Method
Study in C major, Op. 190 No. 2, Louis Köhler
Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 No. 11 — Der Kuckuck (The Cuckoo), Ferdinand Beyer
The First Lessons, Op. 117 No. 1, Cornelius Gurlitt
A Second Voice, written for the Method
Three Steps, written for the Method
Long Shadows, written for the Method

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