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Innocence, Op. 100 No. 5

Friedrich Burgmüller (1,806–1,874)

Key
F major
Style
Studies
Level
Level 3
Roughly
RCM 3 · ABRSM 3 · Trinity 3 · Henle 2
Lesson
Musicianship
Focus
technical study (see title for the specific figure)

What its lesson teaches

3.3 Hear interval colour

Study Burgmüller’s Innocence, Op. 100 No. 5, in F. Its left-hand chords stack thirds of two colours: F–A, a major third, and A–C, a minor third, in bar 1; in bar 3, E–B flat is a tritone, the restless interval that leads back to F. Hear each colour before you play it. At the keyboard: play major and minor thirds.

Technique
  • F major scale, hands separately, 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=214

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 endings restored; the printed repeat and navigation signs restored. · public domain

Innocence

Typeset by Bas Wassink.

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

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 endings restored; the printed repeat and navigation signs restored.

Public Domain

Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=214

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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