Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night's Dream
The recessional from Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1843), arranged for piano
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 126: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Allegro, held to the usual pace of marches. 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 written3616 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand2212 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots862 notes
- Right-hand melody684 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 3, engraved on its own page.
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 E6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from F1 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, triplets, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: octaves, 6ths, 4ths, 3rds (skips), 5ths, 7ths
- 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
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from G. Schirmer, New York, 1905, ed. Karl Klauser, plate 2658 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Felix Mendelssohn died in 1847. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one rests on its source’s licence (CC0 1.0). Credits