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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Folk Song (Kamarinskaya), Op. 39 No. 13

From Album for the Young, Op. 39 (1878)

No. 13 of 24 in Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young, Op. 39

In Album for the Young

Level
3 of 7
Time
2/4
Length
49 bars
Plays in
1 to 2 min

No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 105: the middle speed of the 45 pieces in 2/4 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.

Practise it

Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.

The opening bars of Folk Song (Kamarinskaya), Op. 39 No. 13
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.

  • As written387 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand311 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots209 notes
  • Right-hand melody160 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 A4 to D6, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from A2 to G4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 2 sharps (D major or B minor)
  • Accidentals: naturals, sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, whole notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 5ths, 4ths, 6ths, 7ths
  • 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

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Score typed for Clefsight from G. Schirmer, New York, 1904, ed. Adolf Ruthardt, plate 17224 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in 1893. Credits