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Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, Op. 39

Twenty-four short pieces Tchaikovsky wrote in 1878 for his nephew Volodya: a child's day from Morning Prayer to In Church, with toys and dolls, dances and songs from Russia, Italy, France, Germany and Naples, and a witch. Written after Schumann's Album for the Young, and often played next.

The library has all 24, levels 3 to 6.

Pieces

24

Levels

3 to 6

Key signatures

3 flats to 2 sharps

Length

23 to 85 bars

In the book's order

Each with its number and level, and easier versions made from the score itself, so you can start below a piece's level and work up to it as written.

• Morning Prayer, Op. 39 No. 1
  1 sharp, 3/4, 24 bars
  No. 1 of 24; level 4
• A Winter Morning, Op. 39 No. 2
  2 sharps, 2/4, 64 bars
  No. 2 of 24; level 6
• The Hobby Horse, Op. 39 No. 3
  2 sharps, 3/8, 72 bars
  No. 3 of 24; level 4
• Mama, Op. 39 No. 4
  1 sharp, 3/4, 36 bars
  No. 4 of 24; level 5
• March of the Wooden Soldiers, Op. 39 No. 5
  2 sharps, 2/4, 48 bars
  No. 5 of 24; level 3
• The Sick Doll, Op. 39 No. 6
  2 flats, 2/4, 58 bars
  No. 6 of 24; level 3
• The Doll's Burial, Op. 39 No. 7
  3 flats, 2/4, 48 bars
  No. 7 of 24; level 3
• Waltz, Op. 39 No. 8
  3 flats, 3/4, 85 bars
  No. 8 of 24; level 4
• The New Doll, Op. 39 No. 9
  2 flats, 3/8, 57 bars
  No. 9 of 24; level 4
• Mazurka, Op. 39 No. 10
  1 flat, 3/4, 52 bars
  No. 10 of 24; level 3
• Russian Song, Op. 39 No. 11
  1 flat, 2/4, 30 bars
  No. 11 of 24; level 4
• The Peasant Plays the Accordion, Op. 39 No. 12
  2 flats, 2/4, 23 bars
  No. 12 of 24; level 3
• Folk Song (Kamarinskaya), Op. 39 No. 13
  2 sharps, 2/4, 49 bars
  No. 13 of 24; level 3
• Polka, Op. 39 No. 14
  2 flats, 2/4, 38 bars
  No. 14 of 24; level 4
• Italian Song, Op. 39 No. 15
  2 sharps, 3/8, 49 bars
  No. 15 of 24; level 3
• Old French Song, Op. 39 No. 16
  2 flats, 2/4, 33 bars
  No. 16 of 24; level 3
• German Song, Op. 39 No. 17
  3 flats, 3/4, 33 bars
  No. 17 of 24; level 3
• Neapolitan Song, Op. 39 No. 18
  3 flats, 2/4, 54 bars
  No. 18 of 24; level 3
• The Nurse's Tale, Op. 39 No. 19
  no sharps or flats, 2/4, 48 bars
  No. 19 of 24; level 5
• The Witch (Baba Yaga), Op. 39 No. 20
  1 sharp, 6/8, 46 bars
  No. 20 of 24; level 5
• Sweet Dreams, Op. 39 No. 21
  no sharps or flats, 3/4, 48 bars
  No. 21 of 24; level 4
• Song of the Lark, Op. 39 No. 22
  1 sharp, 3/4, 32 bars
  No. 22 of 24; level 4
• The Organ Grinder Sings, Op. 39 No. 23
  1 sharp, 3/4, 32 bars
  No. 23 of 24; level 3
• In Church, Op. 39 No. 24
  1 sharp, 2/4, 52 bars
  No. 24 of 24; level 3

An order to learn them in

The same pieces from the easiest, by the level fitted to each score; within a level, in the book's order. Teachers skip about in these books, and so can you.

1. Level 3 The Peasant Plays the Accordion, Op. 39 No. 12 · The Organ Grinder Sings, Op. 39 No. 23 · German Song, Op. 39 No. 17 · Old French Song, Op. 39 No. 16 · March of the Wooden Soldiers, Op. 39 No. 5 · The Doll's Burial, Op. 39 No. 7 · Folk Song (Kamarinskaya), Op. 39 No. 13 · Italian Song, Op. 39 No. 15 · In Church, Op. 39 No. 24 · Mazurka, Op. 39 No. 10 · Neapolitan Song, Op. 39 No. 18 · The Sick Doll, Op. 39 No. 6
2. Level 4 Morning Prayer, Op. 39 No. 1 · Russian Song, Op. 39 No. 11 · Song of the Lark, Op. 39 No. 22 · Polka, Op. 39 No. 14 · Sweet Dreams, Op. 39 No. 21 · The New Doll, Op. 39 No. 9 · The Hobby Horse, Op. 39 No. 3 · Waltz, Op. 39 No. 8
3. Level 5 Mama, Op. 39 No. 4 · The Witch (Baba Yaga), Op. 39 No. 20 · The Nurse's Tale, Op. 39 No. 19
4. Level 6 A Winter Morning, Op. 39 No. 2

Other teaching books

Every book five or more library pieces are from.

• Köhler's Very Easiest Exercise Pieces, Op. 190 24
• Beyer's Vorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 14
• Gurlitt's The First Lessons, Op. 117 34 of 34
• Duvernoy's École primaire, Op. 176 16 of 25
• Mozart's first pieces, K. 1a–1f 6 of 6
• Streabbog's Twelve Melodious Studies, Op. 63 12 of 12
• Burgmüller's 25 Easy Studies, Op. 100 25 of 25
• Le Couppey's L'Alphabet, Op. 17 25 of 25
• Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook (1725) 20 of 20
• Lemoine's Études enfantines, Op. 37 29 of 50
• Czerny's 160 Eight-Measure Exercises, Op. 821 19 of 160
• Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299 6 of 40
• Clementi's Six Sonatinas, Op. 36 6 of 6
• Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68 21 of 43
• Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young, Op. 39 24 of 24
• Schumann's Kinderszenen, Op. 15 7 of 13
• Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28 8 of 24