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Arietta, Op. 12 No. 1

Edvard Grieg (1,843–1,907)

First published
1867
Style
Romantic
Level
Level 5
Roughly
RCM 5 · ABRSM 5 · Trinity 5 · Henle 3
Lesson
Musicianship
Focus
voicing a melody over accompaniment

What its lesson teaches

5.9 Carry a melody over broken harmony

Study Grieg’s Arietta, Op. 12 No. 1, in E flat: the melody sings above an accompaniment of even sixteenths that rock between two notes of each chord (G–B flat, then A flat–C flat in bars 1–3) over the left hand’s held bass. Keep that broken harmony quiet and even below the line. The tuplets card shows other ways of dividing a beat; the Arietta keeps to even sixteenths. At the keyboard, read the separate lead-sheet symbols and spread each complete chord through its bar.

Technique
  • E-flat major scale, hands together, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

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

Arietta · Op. 12 · No. 1

Edition: Leipzig: C.F. Peters, 1902 (Grieg, Klavierwerke, Band I: Lyrische Stücke), plate 8800, ed. Hermann Kretzschmar (1924)

Published: 1902

Source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/00179

Public-domain source edition(s).

Checked bar by bar against IMSLP #00179 (C.F. Peters, Leipzig, 1902, plate 8800), 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 2 bars corrected.

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

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