Levels Pieces Technique Reading Musicianship Glossary
Song without Words in A minor “Volkslied”, Op. 53 No. 5
Felix Mendelssohn (1,809–1,847)
First published 1841
Key A minor
Style Romantic
Roughly RCM 9 · ABRSM 8 · Trinity 8 · Henle 5–6
What its lesson teaches
Study Mendelssohn’s Song without Words Op. 53 No. 5 (Volkslied), in A minor. In bars 24–27, move the right hand’s octave-filled chords freely and let the hand close after each reach; later passages also use octaves in both hands. Let the arm carry the movement without locking the hand. At the keyboard: play a scale in octaves.
Technique A harmonic minor scale, hands together, 4 octaves C major scale in octaves, hands together, 2 octaves, staccato
The other lesson pieces of Level 9
Consolation in E major, S. 172 No. 1 Jazz Blues Shells Fugue in C major, BWV 846 Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI:27: I. Allegro con brio Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 64 No. 3 Première Arabesque, L. 66 No. 1 Andantino (Trois nouvelles études), B. 130 No. 1 Étude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1 Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1: I. Allegro molto e con brio
Previous piece Première Arabesque, L. 66 No. 1The repertoire of Level 9
Next piece Andantino (Trois nouvelles études), B. 130 No. 1
Practise all 157 lessons at your piano
In Musalea each lesson runs step by step, and after every run the app tells you what to fix: the bar, the hand and how to practise it.
14 practice days · everything unlocked · no card