Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Gavotte, from the Premier livre
Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 2/2
- Length
- 65 bars
- Plays in
- about 2 min
Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece.
- As written758 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand740 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots409 notes
- Right-hand melody344 notes
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from G3 to C6, 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, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 6ths, 4ths, octaves, 5ths
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns
What stands between you and this piece
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Jean-Philippe Rameau died in 1764. Credits