🎹 Piano Sonata No. 12 in D minor
🎭 Emotional Character
This piece is heavy with introspection, pulling inward toward some wordless truth, propulsive and relentless, leaving no space for hesitation, with a full but measured voice, shaped by bold swells and sudden retreats of sound.
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👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🖐 Large Hands
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
17
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
97htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
51
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
6,083
Total Notes
27%
Interleaved
3.83
Avg N/Beat
143
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
27% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
12/30
Busiest beats: 6 notes/beat (avg 3.83) - moderately busy
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
5/20
143 ornamental notes (2.4%) - occasional ornaments
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: D3–A6 (43 st) | Left: G#1–A5 (49 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
26 st (2Oct+M2) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Wide dynamic range (f avg) - strong expressive control needed
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🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH (Right Hand)
Lower dot = LH (Left Hand)
White dot on black key = sharp/flat note used
📐 Note Range per Hand · Sheet Preview
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | D3 |
| Highest | A6 |
| Span | 43 st (3Oct+P5) |
| Notes | 3,327 |
| Widest leap | 26 st A5→G3 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | G#1 |
| Highest | A5 |
| Span | 49 st (4Oct+m2) |
| Notes | 2,756 |
| Widest leap | 25 st A#4→A2 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 368 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 16 semitones (1Oct+M3)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.4 notes · 442 chords
⚠️ 1 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 35 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
This piece has extensive running passages — smooth thumb-under technique is essential.
🖐 RH: 29 runs · longest 24 notes
🤚 LH: 6 runs · longest 7 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
24%
Repeated
Only 102 of 418 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.
Repeated bar
Unique bar
🎯 Suggested Practice Passages
?Each "passage" is 2 consecutive measures (ô nhịp). The algorithm scores every passage by note density and interval leaps, then picks the 3 hardest for focused practice.
The hardest passages in this piece — spend extra time here before running the full piece.
📍 Measures 104–105
Hardest
📍 Measures 108–109
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 143–144
3rd hardest
