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Allegro by Thomas Attwood

First movement of Sonatina No.1 in G major
Thomas Attwood was an English composer of the Classical period, who lived from 1765 to 1838. He was a student of Mozart, who seems to have inspired and influenced his compositional style.

This particular piece is from Sonatina No. 1 in G major, and is the first movement. The name "Allegro" is also a performance direction, meaning fast, with a lively character. The set of Sonatinas that this is taken from were originally called "lessons", so it is likely that Attwood wrote them to help develop various aspects of musicality and technique in his students. This is certainly a good study for coordination between the hands, due to the melodic right hand which needs to be brought out, and the fast broken chord accompaniment of the left hand. There are many different broken chord patterns found in various pieces of music, and this particular broken chord pattern is called an Alberti Bass. An Alberti Bass is where the notes of a triad are played in the following order repetitively - bottom, top, middle, top. Alberti Bass accompaniments were very common in Classical era music.

This piece is in the grade 2 ABRSM piano syllabus for 2021/2022. Different editions of this piece have different dynamics and articulation marks, so these details are open to interpretation.
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