Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Italian Song, Op. 39 No. 15
From Album for the Young, Op. 39 (1878)
No. 15 of 24 in Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young, Op. 39
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at dotted quarter = 67: the middle speed of the 13 pieces in 3/8 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
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Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written350 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand341 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots153 notes
- Right-hand melody104 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 E5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from D2 to D4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 sharps (D major or B minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 3rds played together in one hand
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, 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, 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