La Dorset

Spagnoletti · Level 5 (Advanced) · traditional · Piano

A work by Spagnoletti (?–?), a piece of popular or dance music. A public-domain or freely licensed piece from the Mutopia Project catalogue. D minor, 6/8, 33 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.
• 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. Triplets and other tuplets must be perfectly even: count them aloud with the metronome.

More pieces by Spagnoletti

• The Countess of Farnham's Waltz

Source : Mutopia Project · Public Domain