Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
Habanera, from Carmen
L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Love is a rebellious bird), arranged for piano
In Love songs
Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.
- As written760 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand748 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots488 notes
- Right-hand melody399 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 4, engraved on its own page.
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 C7, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from D2 to A3, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 6ths, 5ths, 7ths, 3rds (skips), 4ths
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns
Sections
The piece in 12 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.
- Bars 1–8level 3 of 7
- Bars 9–16level 4 of 7
- Bars 17–24level 5 of 7
- Bars 25–32level 5 of 7
- Bars 33–40level 6 of 7
- Bars 41–48level 4 of 7
- Bars 49–55level 4 of 7
- Bars 56–62level 4 of 7
- Bars 63–69level 5 of 7
- Bars 70–76level 5 of 7
- Bars 77–83level 6 of 7
- Bars 84–90level 6 of 7
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Score from PDMX (Public Domain Mark 1.0); the composition is public domain: Georges Bizet died in 1875. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one rests on its uploader marking it public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0). Credits
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