Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Italian Sailors' Song, Op. 68 No. 36
From Album for the Young, Op. 68 (1848)
No. 36 of 43 in Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at dotted quarter = 33: the middle of the speeds usually taken for Lent, two thirds of it counted in dotted quarters. 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 written831 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand588 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots353 notes
- Right-hand melody296 notes
The easy version, the melody and a simpler left hand 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
- Bass clef from D2 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 flats (B♭ major or G minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals, sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, triplets
- Intervals: octaves, 5ths, 7ths, 2nds (steps), 4ths, 10ths
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds
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.
- Bars 1–2level 7 of 7, the hardest
- Bars 3–10played twicelevel 3 of 7
- Bars 12–19level 3 of 7
- Bars 20–27level 3 of 7
- Bars 28–35level 3 of 7
- Bars 36–43level 3 of 7
- Bars 44–51level 4 of 7
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typeset by Philippe Hézaine for the Mutopia Project (CC BY-SA 2.5), adapted for Clefsight; our version and its easier versions are shared under the same licence; the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits
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