Piano pieces in G major
61 pieces in G major to read and learn at your keyboard, levels 2 to 6, easiest first. Its key signature is 1 sharp: F♯. Each piece comes with easier versions made from the score itself.
G major on the circle of fifths, with its neighbours, and its scale with fingering on the scales chart. E minor has the same signature, 1 sharp, with 12 pieces of its own.
- Pieces
- 61
- Levels
- 2 to 6
- Key signatures
- 1 sharp
- Length
- 7 to 219 bars
Level 2
A tune over a simple left hand, mostly in one hand position.
Level 3
Both hands busy, the hand moves around, a sharp or flat or two.
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Come, Thou Almighty King
Felice Giardini 1 sharp, 3/4, 8 bars -
Short Exercise, Op. 821 No. 16
Carl Czerny 1 sharp, 2/4, 8 bars -
Short Exercise, Op. 821 No. 17
Carl Czerny 1 sharp, 4/4, 8 bars -
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
John Stainer 1 sharp, 4/4, 9 bars -
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Carl Gotthelf Gläser 1 sharp, 3/2, 9 bars -
For the Beauty of the Earth
Conrad Kocher 1 sharp, 4/4, 12 bars -
Old Hundredth
Louis Bourgeois 1 sharp, 4/2, 13 bars -
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
John Hughes 1 sharp, 4/4, 14 bars -
Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee
John Bacchus Dykes 1 sharp, 3/4, 14 bars -
Écossaise in G
Franz Schubert 1 sharp, 2/4, 16 bars -
Polska from Lappland
Traditional 1 sharp, 3/4, 16 bars -
How Firm a Foundation
Traditional 1 sharp, 4/4, 17 bars -
I Am Thine, O Lord
William Howard Doane 1 sharp, 4/4, 17 bars -
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
Traditional 1 sharp, 3/4, 17 bars -
O Worship the King
Michael Haydn 1 sharp, 3/4, 17 bars -
Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 4
Henry Lemoine 1 sharp, 2/4, 22 bars -
Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 5
Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy 1 sharp, 4/4, 22 bars -
Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 6
Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy 1 sharp, 4/4, 21 bars -
O Come, All Ye Faithful
John Francis Wade 1 sharp, 4/4, 21 bars -
The Clear Stream, Op. 100 No. 7
Friedrich Burgmüller 1 sharp, 4/4, 24 bars -
Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 11
Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy 1 sharp, 4/4, 25 bars -
Sonatina in G
Thomas Attwood 1 sharp, 4/4, 28 bars -
Chorale, Op. 68 No. 4
Robert Schumann 1 sharp, 4/4, 32 bars -
Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 3: II
Muzio Clementi 1 sharp, 4/4, 32 bars -
Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 7
Henry Lemoine 1 sharp, 3/4, 54 bars -
Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 14
Henry Lemoine 1 sharp, 2/2, 48 bars -
Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 49
Henry Lemoine 1 sharp, 3/4, 32 bars -
Tedesca
Joseph Haydn 1 sharp, 3/4, 32 bars -
Écossaise in G
Ludwig van Beethoven 1 sharp, 2/4, 33 bars -
Minuet in G
Joseph Haydn 1 sharp, 3/4, 33 bars -
Santa Lucia (Neapolitan air)
Carl Czerny 1 sharp, 3/4, 33 bars -
To God Be the Glory
William Howard Doane 1 sharp, 3/4, 33 bars -
We Three Kings
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. 1 sharp, 3/8, 33 bars -
Pastorale, Op. 100 No. 3
Friedrich Burgmüller 1 sharp, 6/8, 37 bars -
Soldiers' March, Op. 68 No. 2
Robert Schumann 1 sharp, 2/4, 48 bars -
Sonatina in G, Anh. 5
Ludwig van Beethoven 1 sharp, 4/4, 50 bars -
Largo (Ombra mai fu), from Serse
George Frideric Handel 1 sharp, 3/4, 52 bars -
Minuet in G, BWV Anh. 114
Christian Petzold 1 sharp, 3/4, 64 bars -
Jingle Bells
James Pierpont 1 sharp, 4/4, 66 bars -
Minuet and Trio in G, K. 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1 sharp, 3/4, 81 bars -
Amazing Grace
Traditional 1 sharp, 3/4, 87 bars -
Sonatina in G, Op. 36 No. 2: III
Muzio Clementi 1 sharp, 3/8, 111 bars -
Sonatina in G, Op. 36 No. 2: I
Muzio Clementi 1 sharp, 2/4, 119 bars -
Little Study, Op. 68 No. 14
Robert Schumann 1 sharp, 6/8, 128 bars
Level 4
Real independence between the hands and more accidentals.
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Short Exercise, Op. 821 No. 15
Carl Czerny 1 sharp, 2/4, 8 bars -
Short Exercise, Op. 821 No. 18
Carl Czerny 1 sharp, 3/8, 8 bars -
Study for the Fifth Finger
Heinrich Germer 1 sharp, 4/4, 16 bars -
Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 16
Henry Lemoine 1 sharp, 2/4, 18 bars -
Of Foreign Lands and Peoples, from Kinderszenen
Robert Schumann 1 sharp, 2/4, 22 bars -
Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 33
Henry Lemoine 1 sharp, 4/4, 24 bars -
Elementary Study, Op. 176 No. 16
Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy 1 sharp, 4/4, 24 bars -
Morning Prayer, Op. 39 No. 1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1 sharp, 3/4, 24 bars -
Invention No. 10 in G, BWV 781
Johann Sebastian Bach 1 sharp, 9/8, 32 bars -
Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 42
Henry Lemoine 1 sharp, 3/8, 56 bars -
Sonatina in G, Op. 36 No. 5: I
Muzio Clementi 1 sharp, 4/4, 169 bars -
Sonatina in G, Op. 36 No. 5: III
Muzio Clementi 1 sharp, 2/4, 172 bars -
Bethena
Scott Joplin 1 sharp, 3/4, 219 bars
Level 5
The edge of early intermediate: dense textures, fast passages and far keys.
Level 6
Intermediate: the notes of level 5 at concert speed, held even from the first bar to the last.
A piece is listed here when its title names the key, its score marks it, or its last bass note is the key note. 5 more library pieces with 1 sharp end somewhere else, so they aren't on a key page; their own pages give the signature.
Other keys
Every key three or more library pieces are in.