Kleine Studie (Little Study), Op. 68 No. 14

Robert Schumann (1,810–1,856)

Key: G major
Style: Studies
Level: Level 3
Roughly: RCM 3 · ABRSM 3 · Trinity 3 · Henle 2
Lesson: 3.1 Group compound beats
Musicianship: 3.1 Melodies in new keys
Focus: Continuous two-hand arpeggio transfer in G major

What its lesson teaches

3.1 Group compound beats

Study Schumann’s Little Study, Op. 68 No. 14, in 6/8. Feel two dotted-quarter beats in each bar while the broken chords pass from hand to hand, and keep each group of three even and light. At the keyboard: play a two-beat compound rhythm.

Ideas: Compound time
Warming up
Theory cards: 6/8 and compound time
Warming up
Technique: G major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Edition: C. F. Peters (as named by the encoder)

Encoding source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=786

Adapted by Musalea: the printed German tempo words restored in place of the encoder's French (Leise und sehr egal zu spielen); markings corrected from the print (bars 31, 41 and 43).

Every bar compared with our transcription from IMSLP #460875 (Ricordi, 1919, ed. Lorenzoni); where the two differed, the print was followed. · CC BY-SA 2.5

Album pour la jeunesse - 14.Petite Etude

Typeset by Philippe Hézaine.

Edition: C. F. Peters (as named by the encoder)

Every bar compared with our transcription from IMSLP #460875 (Ricordi, 1919, ed. Lorenzoni); where the two differed, the print was followed.

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5

Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=786

Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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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