Album for the Young, Op. 39 No. 5: March of the Wooden Soldiers

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1,840–1,893)

Key: D major
Style: Romantic
Level: Level 3
Roughly: RCM 3 · ABRSM 3 · Trinity 3 · Henle 2
Lesson: 3.7 Return to the opening
Musicianship: 3.7 Six-note melodies
Focus: dotted rhythms, steady pulse, chordal texture

What its lesson teaches

3.7 Return to the opening

Study Tchaikovsky’s March of the Wooden Soldiers, Op. 39 No. 5, in D. Its march (bars 1–16) gives way to a contrasting middle (bars 17–32), and the march returns in bar 33: A–B–A. At the keyboard: improvise an A–B–A phrase.

Ideas: Ternary form
Theory cards: Ternary form
Technique: D major scale, hands together, 2 octaves
D major solid triad and inversions, hands together, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Mutopia Project · public domain

March of the Wooden Soldiers

Typeset by Anonymous.

Public Domain

Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1806

Licence: Public Domain (Mutopia Project licensing: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/legal.html)

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

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