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Folk Song

by Edvard Grieg

An upper-intermediate piece from the Romantic period, in F# minor, and about 1 minute and 14 seconds to play.

About this edition

The fifth piece of Book I of Grieg's Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 (1867), titled "Folkevise" (Folk Song) -- a brooding, minor-key evocation of Norwegian folk melody, more harmonically searching than its modest title implies.

Voice the melody note on top of each chord clearly above the inner harmony -- the morendo (dying away) markings ask for real dynamic control, not just a soft ending.

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