Green notes: right hand, blue notes: left hand. Preview played right in your browser with the app's real piano (lightweight version). Inside Pianovera: full multi-layer sound, fingering display and Wait mode.
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A musette, in the eighteenth century, was a small parlor bagpipe. This piece from Anna Magdalena's notebook imitates its drone with leaping octaves in the bass and a melody skipping on top, barefoot in the grass. Twenty seconds of pure good mood: the smallest MIDI file in our library, and probably the most-played anonymous piece in piano history.
It's the dream piece for learning staccato and quick left-hand jumps without any fuss: the form is tiny, the rhythm is square, the payoff is instant. Plenty of students memorize it by accident in the first week.
Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126: the first notes
Right hand, in letter names (C4 = middle C): A5 G5 F#5 E5 D5 A5 G5 F#5 E5 D5 F#4 G4 A4 G4 F#4 E4 A4 F#4 D4 A5 G5 F#5 E5 D5… The rest scrolls in the preview above, with the fingering, and the sheet music PDF has the whole piece.
Play Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126 on the virtual piano
Here are the Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126 virtual piano notes, in computer keyboard letters: the first 8 bars of the melody. One key per note, read left to right; dark keys are the sharps, and a thin line marks each bar. The melody sounds an octave lower than written, so it fits on the keyboard.
Letters for a QWERTY keyboardYour keyboard: 37 notes
YT5EWYT5EW
GBNBGCNGX
YT5EWYT5EW
GBNBGCNX
▶ Play on the virtual pianoThe piano opens with this piece loaded: the key to play lights up and waits for you.
What you'll be working on
The bass octave leaps, precise and bouncy
A light staccato that evokes the bagpipe
The echo phrase of the middle section
Keeping the dance character from first note to last
Playing Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126 on piano with Pianovera
The left-hand leaps read perfectly in Pianovera's preview: two alternating columns of blue notes. Wait mode to calibrate the distances, then full-speed Scroll. This one is meant to be played grinning.
Open Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126 in Pianovera: the notes fall toward an 88-key virtual piano keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out. On a PC, it's falling notes piano software for Windows, with video export up to 4K.
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Download the Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126 MIDI and sheet music
The work itself is in the public domain, and this MIDI engraving was placed in the public domain by its typesetter on the Mutopia Project. Use it freely, videos included.
About this piece
Is Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126 hard to play on piano?
We rate it beginner: 171 notes over 0:20, spanning D2 to A5. The first thing to work on: the bass octave leaps, precise and bouncy.
Where can I get the sheet music for Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (49 KB), engraved by the Mutopia Project from the same source as the MIDI file, Public domain license. View it, print it, keep it.
Is the Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126 MIDI file really free?
Yes. Anonymous died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1725) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.
