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Tyrolienne turque

by Erik Satie (1866–1925) · Early modern · Intermediate

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VersionLevelKeyLength
Intermediate · Level 33 of 5C major1:32

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Era
Early modern (1890–1930)
Mood
Joyful · bright and lively
Versions
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About this piece

Erik Satie (1866–1925) is the composer of Tyrolienne turque, an early-20th-century piece that is cheerful and quick on its feet. It is rated level 3 of 5, intermediate, and takes about 1:32 to play in C major.

About Erik Satie (1866–1925): French composer whose spare, quiet pieces, above all the three Gymnopédies (1888) and the Gnossiennes, sound modern even today.

How to play Tyrolienne turque on piano

  1. Split the piece into sections and learn them one at a time, hands separately first.
  2. Loop the bars that keep going wrong. The app's per-bar feedback shows exactly where they are, so you don't waste time on the bars you already know.
  3. Move up the play-along speeds in steps, 50% then 75% then 100%, only when a section is clean at the current speed.
  4. Short daily sessions beat one long weekly one. Ten focused minutes a day is enough to make steady progress.

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License and credits

Typeset by Knute Snortum for the Mutopia Project. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Source: Mutopia Project.

The source file may be shared and adapted, also commercially, with credit to the typesetter and adaptations under the same license; the preview on this page is an excerpt of it, under that license.

Text events such as lyrics were removed; the notes are as published. The player on this page plays the first 20 seconds.

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