Minuet from the 17th Century (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 10)

Napoléon Coste · Level 4 (Intermediate) · Romantic · Guitar, sheet music and tablature

A solo guitar piece by Napoléon Coste, in E minor and 3/4 time: a melody accompanied by the bass. 16 bars. Repeats are marked as in the score. Complete transcription from the Mutopia Project edition (source: Guitar-Skole af A. Eggers, The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), Copenhagen, Denmark).

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How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• Practise the bass alone (thumb), then the melody alone (i-m, or a with rest strokes) before combining the two voices; the melody must sing on top. Practise the hard passages separately and slowly before linking them.

More pieces by Napoléon Coste

• Gavotte from the 17th Century (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 24)

Source : Mutopia Project · CC BY 3.0