La gracieuse, Op. 100 No. 8

Friedrich Burgmüller (1,806–1,874)

Key: F major
Style: Studies
Level: Level 3
Roughly: RCM 3 · ABRSM 3 · Trinity 3 · Henle 2
Lesson: 3.6 Move by semitone
Musicianship: 3.6 Intervals to the octave

What its lesson teaches

3.6 Move by semitone

Study bars 15–16 of Burgmüller’s La gracieuse, Op. 100 No. 8, in F. Prepare the right-hand upper part, then hear the left hand's C–B–B-flat–A descent before the whole step A–G; combine the hands without changing the written eighth-note rhythm or extracting a voice. This is a short chromatic fragment, not the opening's thirty-second-note turns. Keep that vocabulary in its separate theory example. At the keyboard: play the complete chromatic scale in the existing technique task.

Ideas: Counting and subdivision
The chromatic scale
Spaced review
Theory cards: Thirty-second notes
The chromatic scale
Spaced review
Technique: F major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves
Chromatic scale from C in contrary motion, hands together, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Edition: Collection Litolff, 19th century (as named by the encoder)

Encoding source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=217

Checked bar by bar against Benoit aîné, Paris, 1851, plate 410.B (BnF Gallica btv1b52502531m, Wikimedia Commons), 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 0 bars corrected; the printed dynamics, tempo and expression words restored; the printed repeat and navigation signs restored. · public domain

La Gracieuse

Typeset by Bas Wassink.

Edition: Collection Litolff, 19th century (as named by the encoder)

Public Domain

Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=217

Licence: Public Domain (Mutopia Project licensing: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/legal.html)

Adapted by Musalea: converted to MusicXML and prepared for interactive practice.

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