Anonymous (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach)
Minuet in G, BWV Anh. 116
From the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725)
BWV Anh. 116 of 20 in Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook (1725)
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 120: the middle speed of the 14 minuets 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 written620 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots412 notes
- Right-hand melody332 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 D4 to A5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from D2 to B3, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, triplets
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, octaves
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typeset by Allen Garvin for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: anonymous, written by 1725 and in print since the 19th century. Credits