Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Butterfly, Op. 43 No. 1
Sommerfugl, from Lyric Pieces, Book 3
No. 17 of 66 in Grieg's Lyric Pieces
On the ABRSM Grade 7 list (Piano Practical Grades, 2025 & 2026 and 2027 & 2028)
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 written921 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand823 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots515 notes
- Right-hand melody468 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
- Treble clef from G3 to A6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C1 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 3 sharps (A major or F♯ minor)
- Accidentals: naturals, sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 6ths, 5ths, 2nds (steps), 10ths, 4ths, 7ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads
- Hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position, hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds
Sections
The piece in 6 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.
- Bars 1–6played twicelevel 5 of 7
- Bars 7–13level 5 of 7
- Bars 14–20level 5 of 7
- Bars 21–27level 5 of 7
- Bars 28–34level 5 of 7
- Bars 35–41level 5 of 7
What stands between you and this piece
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Edvard Grieg died in 1907. Credits
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