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Minuet in G — opening melody

Play the graceful Baroque dance melody from the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.

Next stepsChristian Petzold (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) · Opening eight bars in G major · piano one handPiano · One hand · G major · 3/4

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Try it at the keyboard

  1. Remember that every F in the score is played as F♯ because of the G major key signature.
  2. Play the quaver scale passages smoothly, and give a slight lift between the crotchets in bars 1 and 3.
  3. Check the rhythm in bar 4 and bar 8: a dotted minim holds for all three beats.

About this score

First eight bars of the right-hand melody from BWV Anh. 114, presented without ornaments for clear beginner reading.

Composed by Christian Petzold (from the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach); source edition by Mutopia Project. Public domain composition and source edition. Teaching excerpt by NotePlayMusic.

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