Pièces mélodiques Op. 149 n°19

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No. 19 of Diabelli’s Op. 149 is an Allegretto in D minor, in 2/4, for piano duet. It begins with a quaver upbeat. The Primo unfolds a high melody while the Secondo answers with accented chords and shorter figures. Sf accents alternate with piano passages, giving the motifs character without changing their pulse.

The engraving presents the Secondo and Primo parts separately, so the players need to prepare the upbeat and repeats together. In the first section, rests allow the music to restart; later, the Secondo sustains chords beneath slurred right-hand figures. The Primo continues its short phrases before a crescendo leads to a fortissimo conclusion. The length of the final notes and the following rest should belong to the same gesture.

Count a shared lead-in before the upbeat, then practise the repeat endings so that shortened bars are not filled out with an extra beat. Isolate passages where the dynamics change with each motif: sf asks for an accented attack rather than a sustained loud dynamic. Keep the tempo through the final rise and save the greatest intensity for the closing chords.

What the document containsDocument: The PDF has 2 pages, with separate Secondo and Primo parts. It retains fingering, dynamics and repeats. The MIDI lets you hear both parts together.This LilyPond engraving by Alberto Simões comes from the Mutopia Project. It is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence, requiring attribution and sharing on the same terms. Every PDF page includes a link to LesPartitions.info.