Henry Lemoine (1786–1854)
Children's Study, Op. 37 No. 18
No. 18 of 50 in Lemoine's Études enfantines, Op. 37
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 written582 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand343 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots193 notes
- Right-hand melody126 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 A5, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 6ths, 5ths, 4ths, 3rds (skips), 7ths
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms
Sections
The piece in 7 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 1–8played twicelevel 3 of 7
- Bars 9–16played twicelevel 3 of 7
- Bars 18–24level 3 of 7
- Bars 25–31level 3 of 7
- Bars 32–38level 3 of 7
- Bars 39–45level 3 of 7
- Bars 46–52level 4 of 7, the hardest
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Henry Lemoine died in 1854. Credits
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