Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832)
Sonatina in C, Op. 20 No. 1: Rondo
The last movement
No. 1 of 3 in Kuhlau's Three Sonatinas, Op. 20
In Sonatinas
In Easy pieces that sound hard
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 103: the middle speed of the 54 pieces in 2/4 in the library whose files set one. 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 written1747 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1593 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots1057 notes
- Right-hand melody916 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 C7, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 6ths, 5ths, 7ths, 4ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads
- Hands playing together, hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms
Sections
The piece in 20 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 1–8level 3 of 7
- Bars 9–16level 3 of 7
- Bars 17–24level 4 of 7
- Bars 25–32level 4 of 7
- Bars 33–40level 4 of 7
- Bars 41–48level 3 of 7
- Bars 49–56level 3 of 7
- Bars 57–64level 4 of 7
- Bars 65–72level 4 of 7
- Bars 73–80level 3 of 7
- Bars 81–88level 4 of 7
- Bars 89–96level 3 of 7
- Bars 97–104level 3 of 7
- Bars 105–112level 4 of 7
- Bars 113–120level 4 of 7
- Bars 121–128level 3 of 7
- Bars 129–136level 3 of 7
- Bars 137–143level 4 of 7
- Bars 144–150level 3 of 7
- Bars 151–157level 3 of 7
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typeset by Bas Wassink for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Friedrich Kuhlau died in 1832. Credits
Community source. A Mutopia volunteer's edition that passed our computer checks; not yet checked bar by bar against a printed edition. How we check