Clefsight Connect keyboard

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)

Sonata in G minor, K. 111

Level
4 of 7
Time
12/8
Length
110 bars
Plays in
2 to 5 min

Practise it

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.

The opening bars of Sonata in G minor, K. 111
The opening bars

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 written1548 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand1288 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots730 notes
  • Right-hand melody620 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 A3 to D6, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from G1 to G4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 2 flats (B♭ major or G minor)
  • Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, notes held across the beat
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, octaves, 5ths, 6ths
  • Chords: triads, inverted 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 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.

  1. Bars 1–8played twicelevel 4 of 7
  2. Bars 9–16played twicelevel 6 of 7, the hardest
  3. Bars 17–24played twicelevel 5 of 7
  4. Bars 25–32played twicelevel 4 of 7
  5. Bars 33–40played twicelevel 5 of 7
  6. Bars 41–48played twicelevel 4 of 7
  7. Bars 49–55played twicelevel 4 of 7

What stands between you and this piece

Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.

Score from a copy shared on MuseScore (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Domenico Scarlatti died in 1757. Credits

Community source. A copy shared on MuseScore that passed our checks: every bar complete, every chord within reach of a hand, repeats that can be followed, and the key its title names. It hasn't been compared bar by bar with a printed edition yet. How we check Heard a wrong note? Tell us

Learning with someone? Send them this page by email