Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Sweet Dreams, Op. 39 No. 21
From Album for the Young, Op. 39 (1878)
No. 21 of 24 in Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young, Op. 39
- Level
- 4 of 7
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 3/4
- Length
- 48 bars
- Plays in
- 1 to 3 min
Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written575 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand449 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots198 notes
- Right-hand melody150 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
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 4ths, 2nds (steps), 5ths, 3rds (skips), 7ths, 6ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads
- One hand moving while the other holds, hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms, 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, 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