Organ & keyboard
Baroque (French) · 1728

La Poule (Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin)

J.-P. Rameau

Key
Gm
Time
2/4
Tempo
♩=100
AO focus
AO3

Incipit

Form

Character piece — 'The Hen'. Imitates clucking via repeated-note figuration.

Teaching points

  • Programmatic harpsichord piece
  • Repeated-note clucking
  • AO3: French Baroque caractère pieces
Full score ↓Public domain

Durand + Henle, PD.

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