Anonymous (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach)
Piece in F, BWV Anh. 131
From the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725); untitled in the notebook
BWV Anh. 131 of 20 in Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook (1725)
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 107: the middle speed of the 82 pieces in 4/4 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
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Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written97 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots72 notes
- Right-hand melody57 notes
To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from E4 to G5
- Bass clef from C2 to C4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 3rds (skips), octaves, 5ths, 6ths
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typeset by Anonymous for the Mutopia Project (CC BY-SA 2.5), adapted for Clefsight; our version and its easier versions are shared under the same licence; the composition is public domain: anonymous, written by 1725 and in print since the 19th century. Credits