Études enfantines Op. 37 No. 30

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

A Moderato in two beats in B-flat major: legato eighth-note scales and turns in the right hand over held chords, then a left hand climbing in eighths. From Henry Lemoine’s Études enfantines Op. 37 (c. 1840), fifty short studies for the first years of piano. B♭ major, 2/2, 32 bars (about one minute), complete score.

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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.
• Play the eighths smoothly and evenly; in the middle section the left hand must sing as much as the right. One hand sometimes plays two voices: hold the long notes for their full value and let the main line sing louder than the accompaniment. For chords, shape the hand in the air before landing, all notes together. Fast writing: work section by section in Wait mode, then in dotted rhythms, and raise the tempo in steps of 5–10%.

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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