Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
Funeral March of a Marionette
Marche funèbre d'une marionnette, for piano (1872)
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at dotted quarter = 77: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Allegretto, two thirds of it counted in dotted quarters. Its length counts from that.
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Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written1659 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1184 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots693 notes
- Right-hand melody542 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
- Bass clef from D1 to G4, 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, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: octaves, 2nds (steps), 5ths, 4ths, 3rds (skips), 7ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1924 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Charles Gounod died in 1893. Credits