Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 21

Henry Lemoine · Level 3 (Late beginner) · study · Piano

A graceful Andantino in six-eight in A major: a legato eighth-note melody over held basses, with a loud middle section in D major, then the opening returns. From Henry Lemoine’s Études enfantines Op. 37 (c. 1840), fifty short studies for the first years of piano. A major, 6/8, 54 bars (about one minute), complete score.

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• 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.
• Keep the two-beat lilt and play the melody legato; the left hand stays soft under the held notes. The piece starts with a pickup: count the incomplete bar before coming in. In 6/8, count the beats as groups of three eighths (dotted beats) to keep the lilt. One hand sometimes plays two voices: hold the long notes for their full value and let the main line sing louder than the accompaniment.

More pieces by Henry Lemoine

• Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 1
• Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 2
• Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 4
• Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 5
• Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 6
• Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 7
• Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 12
• Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 14

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