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Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”, second movement, 1893. The melody is public domain; the later “Goin’ Home” lyric is not used here.

61 keys · C2–C7, five octaves · The usual home keyboard — five octaves, enough for nearly everything written for two hands.

Tap a key, or slide along them for a glissando. On a keyboard the letters on the keys are the ones to press — Z to M are the white keys from middle C with S, D, G, H and J the black ones between them, and Q to P are the octave above; the arrow keys move both rows an octave, and Space is the sustain pedal.

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Going Home (New World Largo) — Piano Letter Notes

Going Home (Largo, New World Symphony) (the opening theme), written out for the piano as easy letter notes for the right hand, with do-re-mi under every note and set up above on the 61 keys. Press Play to hear it, Practice to learn it one note at a time — the piano waits for you — or Play along to keep time with it.

  • Notes22, 4 pitches
  • RangeC4–G4
  • Key hereC major
  • Tempo66 bpm · about 29 s
  • LevelEasy

Can a piano play Going Home (New World Largo)?

Yes — every size on this page plays it. The check is made note by note against what each one can actually sound. Where the tune does not fit as the library writes it, another key or octave is tried, and the table says which; where nothing fits, it names the notes that are missing.

  • 49 keys✓ Plays as writtenIn C major, C4–G4 · load it
  • 61 keys✓ Plays as writtenIn C major, C4–G4 · loaded above
  • 88 keys✓ Plays as writtenIn C major, C4–G4 · load it

Going Home (New World Largo): piano letter notes

The large line is the key’s letter; a dot over it is the octave above middle C’s, a dot under it the octave below; the small line under it is the same note in do-re-mi. A dash holds the note another beat, an underline is half a beat, and a dot beside a note makes it half as long again. Each line is one phrase.

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Going Home (Largo, New World Symphony) — piano letter notes (61 keys) · tonalics.com

Going Home (New World Largo) letter notes as text

The same notes as plain text, one phrase to a line, to copy into a message or a document. A letter on its own is in the octave that starts on middle C (C4). Every note of this tune is in it. A comma marks a long note.

E G G, E D C
D E G E D, E G G, E D C, D E D C C

Is there a both-hands version?

Not of Going Home (New World Largo), on this page. The left hand here is made by rule — three chords, one hand position — and it is only offered where that rule can be checked against a published harmonisation and agrees with it on most bars. This melody has no barred score in its sources to hang the chords on. The right hand above is the whole tune.

The 4 notes it uses

Lowest to highest, with how many times each is played. Learn these 4 and you can play the whole tune.

  • CDo×4
  • DRe×6
  • EMi×7
  • GSol×5

What to expect on a piano

  • It runs from C4 to G4, a fifth, using 4 different notes. That leaves 24 semitones unused below and 29 above.
  • 71% of its moves are a step or a repeated note. The widest is a minor third, E4 to G4, at note 2.
  • It is played on the white keys only.
  • It covers 5 neighbouring white keys, so the right hand never moves: thumb on C4, one finger to a key.

About the tune

This is the cor anglais melody that opens the slow movement of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”, written in New York in 1893 while he was director of the National Conservatory. It sounds like a spiritual and is often taken for one, but the tune is Dvořák’s own.

Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”, second movement, 1893. The melody is public domain; the later “Goin’ Home” lyric is not used here. More about Going Home (New World Largo) →

Going Home (New World Largo) on other instruments

The same melody, in each instrument’s own notation.

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