Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
Solace
(Excerpt from A Mexican Serenade) From The Sting
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key signature
- 1 flat
- Time
- 2/4
- Length
- 64 bars
- Plays in
- about 3 min
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Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece.
- As written887 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand595 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots324 notes
- Right-hand melody260 notes
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from A3 to B5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C2 to F4, 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, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 4ths, 5ths, 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 6ths, 10ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Scott Joplin died in 1917. Credits