Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945)
Intermezzo, from Cavalleria rusticana
The orchestra's interlude between the two scenes of Mascagni's opera (1890), transcribed for piano
In Opera
In Easy pieces that sound hard
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 written765 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand497 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots216 notes
- Right-hand melody168 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
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: octaves, 4ths, 2nds (steps), 7ths, 6ths, 5ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads, seventh chords
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms
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 1–8level 3 of 7
- Bars 9–16level 3 of 7
- Bars 17–24level 3 of 7
- Bars 25–32level 3 of 7
- Bars 33–40level 3 of 7
- Bars 41–48level 3 of 7
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Pietro Mascagni died in 1945. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one is free to use because its uploader released it into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Credits
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