🎹 Scarborough Fair/Canticle Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
This piece is shadowy and elusive, never quite resolving into solid ground, balanced between urgency and calm, with a light and considerate touch, unwavering in its chosen volume and character.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🖐 Large Hands
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
3
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
18htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
38
/ 100
Moderate - requires coordination between hands
954
Total Notes
56%
Interleaved
3.07
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
56% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
5/30
Busiest beats: 4 notes/beat (avg 3.07) - comfortable density
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
6/15
Right: D4–B5 (21 st) | Left: D3–F#5 (28 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
26 st (2Oct+M2) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Moderate dynamics (mp avg) - clear expression required
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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 | D4 |
| Highest | B5 |
| Span | 21 st (1Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 215 |
| Widest leap | 12 st E4→E5 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | D3 |
| Highest | F#5 |
| Span | 28 st (2Oct+M3) |
| Notes | 739 |
| Widest leap | 26 st F#5→E3 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 40 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 26 semitones (2Oct+M2)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 120 chords
⚠️ 60 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 4 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
37%
Repeated
29 of 78 bars contain repeated phrases — a good portion of the piece recycles earlier material, reducing the unique learning load.
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 26–27
Hardest
📍 Measures 44–45
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 62–63
3rd hardest
