La huérfana, Op. 1 No. 9

Enrique Granados (1,867–1,916)

Key: B minor
Style: Modern, jazz and dance
Level: Level 7
Roughly: RCM 7 · ABRSM 6 · Trinity 6–7 · Henle 4
Lesson: 7.10 Plan a polished performance
Musicianship: 7.10 A Dorian answer
Focus: Shape the sorrowful melody and balance independent accompaniment voices

What its lesson teaches

7.10 Plan a polished performance

Prepare a polished performance of Granados’s La huérfana, Op. 1 No. 9. Plan where the phrases breathe, voice the melody above the accompaniment, and listen back to a recording before the final run. At the keyboard: play a cadence and improvise an answering phrase.

Ideas: Recording and listening back
Voicing and balance
Theory cards: Recording and listening back
Technique: B harmonic minor scale, hands together, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Biblioteca Nacional de España · CC BY 4.0

La huérfana, Op. 1 No. 9

Edition: Barcelona: Musical Emporium de Viuda de J.M. Llobet, ca. 1914, plate J.M.LL.36; BNE MC/3763/28; no editor

Published: 1914

Source: https://bnedigital.bne.es/bd/es/card?id=e4073da2-c230-4457-8301-afa9130f3863

Biblioteca Nacional de España

Imagen procedente de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España.

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Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Checked bar by bar against Vda. de J. M. Llobet, Barcelona, ca. 1914, plate J.M.LL.36 (Biblioteca Nacional de España, MC/3763/28), p. 15, 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 7 bars corrected.

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

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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
Lullaby (Berceuse), Op. 109 No. 7, Friedrich Burgmüller

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