🎹 Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Witty and light-footed, full of small surprises, breathed out with agonizing patience — packed with simultaneous motion.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
11
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
67htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
62
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,183
Total Notes
20%
Interleaved
7
Avg N/Beat
1
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎚 Dynamics
f
Mostly f - subtle dynamic shaping
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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
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | F#1 |
| Highest | C#6 |
| Span | 55 st (4Oct+P5) |
| Notes | 521 |
| Widest leap | 43 st F#2→C#6 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | A3 |
| Highest | B6 |
| Span | 38 st (3Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 662 |
| Widest leap | 18 st C#6→G4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 14 semitones (1Oct+M2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 18 chords
⚠️ 1 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 14 semitones (1Oct+M2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 66 chords
⚠️ 6 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 8 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
This piece has extensive running passages — smooth thumb-under technique is essential.
🖐 RH: 3 runs · longest 11 notes
🤚 LH: 5 runs · longest 36 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
0%
Repeated
Only 0 of 44 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 24–25
Hardest
📍 Measures 30–31
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 36–37
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano on piano?
Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 62/100.
It was composed by Nguyễn Tuấn Anh. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 4m 21s. It contains 1,183 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
11 weeks
(~67 total practice hours) for a advanced level student.
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 5 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano?
Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 62/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of Le Cygne (The Swan) Saint-Saëns-Godowsky Piano?
Witty and light-footed, full of small surprises, breathed out with agonizing patience — packed with simultaneous motion. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 40 BPM.
