Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Golliwogg's Cake-walk, from Children's Corner
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 138: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Allegro. Its length counts from that.
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 written1276 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1034 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots498 notes
- Right-hand melody377 notes
Its notes with letter names: the sheet music with each note's letter under it, and a drill of the notes it uses.
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 G3 to B6, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 3 flats (E♭ major or C minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 5ths, 4ths, 3rds (skips), octaves, 6ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, 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 typed for Clefsight from A. Durand & Fils, Paris, 1908 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Claude Debussy died in 1918. Credits