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Alicia Ann Spottiswoode (1810–1900)

Annie Laurie

Lady John Scott's tune to William Douglas's verses about Annie Laurie, set for piano

In Love songs

Level
2 of 7
Time
4/4
Length
17 bars
Plays in
about 1 min

No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 92: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Andante. Its length counts from that.

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 Annie Laurie
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 written212 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand167 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots75 notes
  • Right-hand melody58 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 B3 to E5, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from G2 to C4, with ledger lines
  • No key signature to keep in mind
  • Accidentals: 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: 5ths, 6ths, octaves, 4ths, 2nds (steps), 7ths
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds

Sections

The piece in 2 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 2–9level 2 of 7
  2. Bars 10–17level 3 of 7, the hardest

What stands between you and this piece

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Score from PDMX (Public Domain Mark 1.0); the composition is public domain: Alicia Ann Spottiswoode died in 1900. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one rests on its uploader marking it public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0). Credits

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