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Alberti bass

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Alberti bass as used in the opening of Mozart's Sonata in C major, K.545.

A conventional broken-chord accompaniment common in 18th-century keyboard music, taking its name from Domenico Alberti, who made much use of it. Many familiar examples of the device can be found in the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.



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Pieces like "Crossing the Bridge" and "Serenata" incorporate timeless concepts--scale patterns, parallel thirds, Alberti Bass and balance between hands--with broad styles, fun melodies and short, approachable form.
Go to the piano, and learn to play a C-major scale in triplets ascending and descending in the right hand against a left hand playing a C-major chord Alberti bass in sixteenths.
If the student will be reading a new construct such as Alberti bass, the chord progression and Alberti pattern will have been taught before the piece itself is introduced to be sight read.
 
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