Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
La donna è mobile, from Rigoletto
The Duke's song from Verdi's Rigoletto (1851), shortened and arranged in B flat (Verdi wrote it in B)
In Opera
In Easy pieces that sound hard
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 written511 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand361 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots183 notes
- Right-hand melody140 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 F6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from B1 to F4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 flats (B♭ major or G minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, triplets
- Intervals: octaves, 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 7ths, 5ths, 6ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads, seventh chords
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns
Sections
The piece in 6 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.
- Bars 1–8level 3 of 7
- Bars 9–16level 3 of 7
- Bars 17–24level 3 of 7
- Bars 25–32level 4 of 7
- Bars 33–40level 4 of 7
- Bars 41–44level 4 of 7
What stands between you and this piece
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Giuseppe Verdi died in 1901, and so is Vincent’s arrangement. Credits
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