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Carl Czerny (1791–1857)

Santa Lucia (Neapolitan air)

Santa Lucia

Level
3 of 5
Key signature
1 sharp
Time
3/4
Length
33 bars
Plays in
about 1 min

Practise it

Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer.

The opening bars of Santa Lucia (Neapolitan air)
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece.

  • As written281 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand275 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots148 notes
  • Right-hand melody115 notes

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from A4 to G6, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from G2 to E4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 3rds (skips), 5ths, 6ths, 3rds played together in one hand
  • Chords: inverted triads
  • Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms

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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Carl Czerny died in 1857. Credits