Minuet in B-flat major, BWV Anh. 118

Learn this piece

Level

Intermediate

Key

B♭ major

Metre

3/4

Tempo

90 BPM

Length

26 bars, about 2 minutes

Hands

both

Trains

A minuet in B-flat major in which the hands take turns with the eighth notes (the left hand in bars 1-5 and 17-19, the right hand in bars 6-7 and 11-14), with appoggiaturas in bars 2 and 4 and a trill with a two-note ending in bar 10; both halves repeated, the first with first and second endings.

How to practise it

• In bars 1-5 the left hand carries the eighth notes while the right hand plays longer notes. Practise the left hand alone, then loop bars 1-5 hands together at 60 BPM.
• Bar 10 has a trill on B♭ that ends with A and B♭. Learn the bar without the trill first, then add it lightly so the C in bar 11 still lands on the beat.
• In bars 11-14 the right hand takes over the eighth notes, running down and back up; from bar 12 the left hand walks in quarter notes. Listen that both hands stay steady against each other.
• Both halves repeat: play bar 8 the first time and bar 9 the second, then bar 25 and bar 26 in the second half.

Where this score came from

Licence: Public domain

https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1014

Credit: Typeset by Steven McDougall for the Mutopia Project (Mutopia-2007/07/30-1014) from the Bach-Gesellschaft edition (vol. 43, 1894), and placed in the public domain by the typesetter.

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