🎹 Fugue in A Major Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Nostalgic and tender, touched by a gentle wistfulness, settled and full in its voice — breathed out with agonizing patience, holding its emotional level to the end.
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎼 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
60
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
2,055
Total Notes
36%
Interleaved
5.94
Avg N/Beat
2
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
36% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 8 notes/beat (avg 5.94) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
2 ornamental notes (0.1%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
6/15
Right: F#3–B5 (29 st) | Left: D2–B4 (33 st)
↕
Largest Interval Leap
10/10
31 st (2Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
#
Chromatic Complexity
8/8
42% black-key notes - heavy accidentals, hard to sight-read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
4/7
~2.7 notes active per beat (max 6) - melody + accompaniment with inner voices
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
3m 59s - medium length: sustained focus needed
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
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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 | D2 |
| Highest | B4 |
| Span | 33 st (2Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 863 |
| Widest leap | 31 st E2→B4 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F#3 |
| Highest | B5 |
| Span | 29 st (2Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 1,192 |
| Widest leap | 17 st A5→E4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 24 semitones (2 Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 155 chords
⚠️ 26 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 17 semitones (1Oct+P4)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 234 chords
⚠️ 12 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 11 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
This piece has extensive running passages — smooth thumb-under technique is essential.
🖐 RH: 9 runs · longest 9 notes
🤚 LH: 2 runs · longest 6 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
1%
Repeated
Only 1 of 87 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 37–38
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 54–55
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Fugue in A Major Piano on piano?
Fugue in A Major Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 60/100.
It was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 3m 59s. It contains 2,055 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Fugue in A Major Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Fugue in A Major 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 Fugue in A Major Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Fugue in A Major Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 4 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
Is there a video tutorial for Fugue in A Major Piano piano?
Yes — a piano video tutorial for Fugue in A Major Piano is embedded on this page.
You can watch it here or follow the 'Play on YouTube' link.
The tutorial covers the full arrangement at 48 BPM.
What piano level is required to play Fugue in A Major Piano?
Fugue in A Major Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 60/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of Fugue in A Major Piano?
Nostalgic and tender, touched by a gentle wistfulness, settled and full in its voice — breathed out with agonizing patience, holding its emotional level to the end. It belongs to the Piano
· Classical Piano
· Nhạc Piano cổ điển
genre.
The piece is played at 48 BPM.
