Pièces mélodiques Op. 149 n°20

About this work

Diabelli’s Hongroise, the twentieth piece in opus 149, sets a lively melody against chords placed between the bass beats. Primo adds small grace notes and accents to its upper line; secondo keeps the music moving with bass notes and answering chords. The rests make the exchange clearer than a continuous accompaniment would.
Two players sharing one bounce
First combine secondo’s bass notes with primo’s main melody notes, leaving out the grace notes. Both players need the same bounce in the two-beat metre. Bring back the ornaments by linking them to the following note, without making the accompaniment’s next beat arrive early.
The engraving places secondo before primo. Locate the repeat signs in both parts before playing: both sections return, even though the players’ page turns fall at different places. Watch the 8va markings in the upper part as well. Primo sounds at the octave specified by those markings.
Score and listeningThe PDF contains both complete piano duet parts in two pages. Alberto Simões’s engraving is distributed by the Mutopia Project under CC BY-SA 3.0 and was made with LilyPond. The MIDI lets you hear both players and their repeats.Original files and credits are available in the Mutopia entry. Explore more music at LesPartitions.info.