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Allegretto grazioso, Op. 117 No. 6

Cornelius Gurlitt (1,820–1,901)

First published
1895
Key
C major
Style
Romantic
Level
Level 1
Roughly
RCM 1 · ABRSM 1 · Trinity 1 · Henle 1
Lesson
Musicianship

What its lesson teaches

1.6 Play every semitone

Study Gurlitt’s Allegretto grazioso, Op. 117 No. 6, in C. Read the F sharp in bar 7 and the A flats of bars 10–15 inside each bar: an accidental lasts until the bar line. Then play the chromatic scale, every semitone in turn, with the third finger on each black key.

Technique
  • Chromatic scale from C, hands separately, 2 octaves
  • C major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Edition: the encoder names none; checked bar by bar against IMSLP #400775 (G. Schirmer, New York, 1895), p. 3, 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 2 bars corrected (bars 10 and 12).

Encoding source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/734873 (MuseScore file; PDF #734882)

Adapted by Musalea: the encoder's licence text removed from the music. · CC BY-SA 4.0

Allegretto grazioso, Op. 117 No. 6 (The First Lessons)

Typeset by Darrell Richings.

Edition: the encoder names none; checked bar by bar against IMSLP #400775 (G. Schirmer, New York, 1895), p. 3, 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 2 bars corrected (bars 10 and 12).

Adapted by Musalea: the encoder's licence text removed from the music.

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0

Source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/734873

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

Adapted by Musalea: converted to MusicXML and prepared for interactive practice. This adapted score is shared under the same licence; the app exports it as MusicXML.

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