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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729)

Courante

Suite in D Minor N3

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

Practise it

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The opening bars of Courante
The opening bars

Versions

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

  • As written592 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand518 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots280 notes
  • Right-hand melody236 notes

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from A3 to F5, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from A1 to G4, with ledger lines
  • No key signature to keep in mind
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), octaves, 3rds (skips), 4ths, 5ths, 6ths
  • Chords: inverted triads, triads
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns

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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre died in 1729. Credits