Lullaby (Berceuse), Op. 109 No. 7

Friedrich Burgmüller (1,806–1,874)

Key: F major
Style: Studies
Level: Level 7
Roughly: RCM 7 · ABRSM 6 · Trinity 6–7 · Henle 4
Lesson: 7.11 Keep a lullaby melody above its rocking accompaniment
Musicianship: 7.11 Off-beat melodies
Focus: gentle ostinato accompaniment, soft cantabile

What its lesson teaches

7.11 Keep a lullaby melody above its rocking accompaniment

Study Burgmüller’s Berceuse, Op. 109 No. 7, a study from his characteristic studies. Let the right-hand melody sing above the gently rocking accompaniment, keep the accompaniment even and soft, and shape each phrase to its end. This is the level’s second study, beside the Autumn Circle Etude.

Ideas: Voicing and balance
The phrase
Theory cards: Voicing a melody
Technique: F major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

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

Berceuse

Edition: Benoit aîné, Paris, 1858 (Commons source metadata)

Published: 1858

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:18_%C3%A9tudes_de_genre_pour_piano_op._109_-_btv1b52502323b_(17_of_42).jpg

Public-domain source edition(s).

Checked bar by bar against Benoit aîné, Paris, 1858 (BnF, Wikimedia Commons), p. 17, 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 5 bars corrected.

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

The other lesson pieces of Level 7

Invention No. 3 in D major, BWV 774, Johann Sebastian Bach
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo, Ludwig van Beethoven
Invention No. 7 in E minor, BWV 778, Johann Sebastian Bach
Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor), WoO 59, Ludwig van Beethoven
Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4, Frédéric Chopin
Autumn Circle Etude, written for the Method
Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1: I. Andante, Ludwig van Beethoven
Invention No. 8 in F major, BWV 779, Johann Sebastian Bach
Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782, Johann Sebastian Bach
La huérfana, Op. 1 No. 9, Enrique Granados

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