Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Rider's Piece, Op. 68 No. 23
Reiterstück, from Album for the Young, Op. 68 (1848)
No. 23 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 = 90: the middle speed of the 27 pieces in 6/8 in the library whose files set one. 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 written840 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand577 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots381 notes
- Right-hand melody312 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 A5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from D1 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, sharps outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: octaves, 4ths, 7ths, 2nds (steps), 6ths, 5ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms
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