Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
William Tell Overture: the finale
The galop that ends the overture to Rossini's Guillaume Tell (1829), arranged for piano
In Opera
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 written2950 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand2159 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots1210 notes
- Right-hand melody1111 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 E6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from E1 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 4 sharps (E major or C♯ minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), octaves, 6ths, 4ths, 5ths, 3rds (skips)
- 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 16 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 4 of 7
- Bars 9–16level 4 of 7
- Bars 17–24level 4 of 7
- Bars 25–31level 4 of 7
- Bars 32–38level 4 of 7
- Bars 39–46level 4 of 7
- Bars 47–50level 4 of 7
- Bars 51–56level 4 of 7
- Bars 57–62level 4 of 7
- Bars 63–68level 5 of 7
- Bars 18–29level 4 of 7
- Bars 69–76level 4 of 7
- Bars 77–83level 5 of 7
- Bars 84–90level 5 of 7
- Bars 91–96level 4 of 7
- Bars 97–102level 3 of 7
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Gioachino Rossini died in 1868. 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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