Public-domain song
Korobeiniki
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 2/4
- Origin
- A Russian folk tune, carrying Nekrasov’s 1861 pedlar verse. In A minor, so written in C’s signature.
Public domain: a traditional tune, first published in 1861.
Written out here note by note as a melody only: no lyrics and no accompaniment.
The two parts
Part 1
The phrase people know, short enough to learn in a sitting.
- Length
- 8 bars, 19 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 122
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- A4 to E5
- Note values
- dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes
Part 2: the complete song
The whole tune: its melody once through to its end, without the repeats a performance would add.
- Length
- 16 bars, 36 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 140
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Range
- A4 to A5
- Note values
- half notes, dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes
Earn a star on the first part to open the complete song.
Lessons that use this song
Each of these lessons opens the first part.