Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Little Bird, Op. 43 No. 4
Liden fugl, from Lyric Pieces, Book 3
No. 20 of 66 in Grieg's Lyric Pieces
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at dotted quarter = 92: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Allegro, two thirds of it counted in dotted quarters. 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 written890 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand829 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots455 notes
- Right-hand melody390 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 3, 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 G3 to C7, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, triplets
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 5ths, octaves, 7ths
- Chords: seventh chords
- Hands playing together, hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, 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 C.F. Peters, Leipzig, 1902, plate 8800 (scan on IMSLP), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Edvard Grieg died in 1907. Credits