Minuet in G

How hard is it?

Medium, and not because someone remembered it that way. These five numbers come off the melody itself, the same way the app grades its lessons.

Fastest passage

300 ms

per note, at 100 bpm

Ornaments

0

nothing to decorate

Quick leaps

0

of a fourth or wider

Span

13

semitones, F#4 to G5

Black keys

6%

of the notes

• its quickest passage asks for about 300 ms a note
• it spans 13 semitones, wider than an octave
• it covers 64 notes across 10 phrases, which is how it is taught in the app, one breath at a time

What you can play it on

5 of the instruments in the workshop can teach this tune. Where the number differs from "all of them", the reason is the instrument, not the song: a diatonic kalimba has no sharps, and a pentatonic handpan or guzheng has no fourth or seventh at all.

• Piano at written pitch
• Guitar down 1 octave
• Kalimba up 5 semitones
• Violin at written pitch
• Accordion at written pitch
• Handpan not this one
• Guzheng not this one
• Drums not this one
• Xylophone not this one

Where this transcription came from

Christian Petzold, Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 114 (c. 1725), public domain - the most famous page of the Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach, long credited to Bach and reattributed by scholarship to Petzold, whose melody it is (the composer field names the melodist). From mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWVAnh114/anna-magdalena-04 - midi_read.py anna-magdalena-04.mid 0 65 --track 2 The whole first strain, sixteen bars. ONE documented edit: bar 7's written grace (the source renders it G 0.385 + B 0.115, at beat 20.5) is folded into its host note as G 0.5 - same rule as the Symphony's fermatas, the grace's time returned to the note it stole from.

Mutopia Project

Every melody in this catalogue is public domain and was transcribed from a named source, then checked against it by a tool rather than by ear. None of them was written down from memory - which is the usual reason two versions of a folk tune on the internet disagree.