Hotaru Koi — complete 1937 melody

• Keep the octave transfers precise.
• Give every crotchet rest its full beat.

Composer: Traditional Japanese tune; Children’s Music Research Society’s selected setting

Original: Complete text-underlaid melody, 16 bars, across both piano hands: E3–B4 uniformly up P8 to soprano E4–B5; native alto A4–E6. Accompaniment omitted.

Prepare the upper register through Lessons 49–50.

Notes Used: E4, G4, A4, B4, E5, G5, A5, B5

Notes Used: A4, C5, D5, E5, A5, C6, D6, E6

Time Signature: 2/4 · Key: Japanese pentatonic melody, final A

Time Signature: 2/4 · Key: Source label: Japanese pentatonic melody, final A (alto staff transposed up a fourth)

Fingering Review

Complete music

Practice

Source: Children’s Music Research Society, Piano/Organ Pieces for Children (1937), pp. 6–7; NDL public-domain scan.

Performance Goal: Keep the pulse through each rest and the full register changes.