This is shortened version of Mozart’s “Alla turca” in an arrangement for improver keyboard having specified fingering marked on the score. It should be an easy piece to learn in that it one of the most immediately recognisable and popular pieces of music in the repertoire. It was Mozart himself who titled the piece “Alla turca” (Turkish March) as the music was intended to imitate the sounds of the instruments in the then familiar Turkish military bands. Understood to have been composed in 1783, a tempo in the range 110 – 120 quarter note (crotchet) beats to the minute is suggested and little use of sustaining pedal is advised although it can be used more readily in the coda or closing section. The realisation plays back at 112 quarter note beats per minute and the ornaments have been written out on an ossia staff to add clarity to the score.
