Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
New Year's Eve, Op. 68 No. 43
Sylvesterlied, the album's last piece; from Album for the Young, Op. 68 (1848)
No. 43 of 43 in Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 98: the middle of the speeds usually taken for Im mäßigen Tempo. 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 written776 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand452 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots228 notes
- Right-hand melody198 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 C6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from A1 to E4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 3 sharps (A major or F♯ minor)
- Accidentals: naturals, sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: octaves, 2nds (steps), 4ths, 6ths, 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
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, 1893, ed. Max Vogrich, plate 10496 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits