Bittendes Kind, Op. 15 No. 4

Robert Schumann (1,810–1,856)

First published: 1839
Key: D major
Style: Romantic
Level: Level 5
Roughly: RCM 5 · ABRSM 5 · Trinity 5 · Henle 3
Lesson: 5.5 End on a question
Musicianship: 5.5 Dotted phrases

What its lesson teaches

5.5 End on a question

Study Schumann’s Bittendes Kind (Pleading Child), Op. 15 No. 4, from Kinderszenen, in D. Its phrases plead and settle, but the piece does not come home: the last bar stops on the dominant seventh, A–C sharp–E–G, left unresolved like a question. Compare that ending with the perfect and imperfect cadences of the card and with the deceptive cadence studied earlier, and let the last chord hang. At the keyboard: play I–ii6–I64–V7–I, then stop on the V7.

Ideas: Cadences
Perfect and imperfect authentic cadences
Theory cards: Perfect and imperfect authentic cadences
Technique: D major scale, hands together, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Mutopia Project · CC BY 3.0

Kinderscenen - Bittendes Kind

Typeset by Ying-Chun Liu.

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Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=366

Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Adapted by Musalea: converted to MusicXML and prepared for interactive practice.

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