Pieces / Grieg
Peer Gynt · Op. 23 (Suite No. 1, Op. 46)

Morning Mood

Edvard Grieg, 1875 · Allegretto pastorale · 24 keys · Easy

About the piece

Grieg wrote music for Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt in 1875. Morning Mood opens the fourth act, a sunrise in the Moroccan desert, and later became the first piece of his Peer Gynt Suite No. 1.

The flute plays this five-note tune, then the oboe answers. You play it in its own key, E major.

Key
E major
Time
6/8
Keys
24
Licence
Public domain

Morning Mood letters

The whole passage, as letters to type. P is a black key; a dash holds the note a little longer.

J - Y T - D T - Y
J - Y T - D T Y T Y - J
Y - J O - Y O - J Y - T D -