Hunting Song, Op. 19 No. 3 by Felix Mendelssohn: play it with falling notes in your browser, on your computer keys, a touch screen or a MIDI keyboard. It is part of Klaviero Premium, and 49 pieces are free. The chart has 2,389 notes over 2:18, peaks at 20.3 notes per second, and Klaviero rates it tier 5 of 5.
Hunting Song is No. 3 of the first book of Felix Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, Op. 19, a Molto allegro e vivace in A major. The book was written in 1829 and 1830 and published by Novello in London in 1832 as Original Melodies for the Pianoforte; the later books used the title Songs Without Words, which seems to have been Mendelssohn's own invention. There are eight books of six songs each. Mendelssohn titled only some of them himself, and later publishers gave fanciful names to others. He also resisted literal readings: when his friend Marc-André Souchay wanted to set words to them, Mendelssohn answered that what the music expressed was not too indefinite for words but too definite. The chart is fast and dense, 2,389 notes in 2:18, 17.2 per second on average and 20.3 in the busiest 25 seconds, 0:19 to 0:44. The left hand plays slightly more of the notes than the right, 1,269 to 1,120. The range runs from E1 to C sharp7, and 23 notes fall outside a 61-key keyboard.
No. 3 of Mendelssohn's first book of Songs Without Words, Op. 19, in A major.
It averages 17.2 notes per second against a peak of 20.3, so the busiest bar is barely harder than the rest and there is nowhere to recover. The right hand plays 47% of the 2,389 notes and the left 53%. The notes run E1 to C sharp7, 5.8 octaves, which is past what a 61-key board reaches at one end or the other. Klaviero rates it tier 5 of 5.
Composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Notes
2,389
Length
2:18
Peak density
20.3 notes per second
Difficulty
tier 5 of 5
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