Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Lustig – Traurig, WoO 54
Two little piano pieces, cheerful and sad
In Easy pieces that sound hard
- Level
- 3 of 7
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 3/8
- Length
- 114 bars
- Plays in
- 1 to 3 min
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at dotted quarter = 64: the middle speed of the 11 pieces in 3/8 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written963 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand834 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots459 notes
- Right-hand melody345 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 D6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C2 to G4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 4ths, 2nds (steps), 5ths, 6ths, 3rds (skips), octaves
- Chords: inverted triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827. Credits