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Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Level
3 of 5
Key signature
no sharps or flats
Time
2/4
Length
38 bars
Plays in
about 1 min

Practise it

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

The opening bars of Songs My Mother Taught Me
The opening bars

Versions

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

  • As written212 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand206 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots129 notes
  • Right-hand melody91 notes

What it asks of you

  • Bass clef from C2 to G4, with ledger lines
  • No key signature to keep in mind
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, notes held across the beat
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 3rds (skips), 5ths, octaves, 6ths
  • Chords: inverted triads
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms

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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Antonín Dvořák died in 1904. Credits