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Les cinq doigts
Les cinq doigts is a 1921 piano composition by Igor Stravinsky. Subtitled "8 mélodies très faciles sur 5 notes" ("8 very easy melodies on 5 notes"), the work comprises eight short pieces in which the right hand generally plays only five notes, remaining in essentially the same position at the keyboard throughout the work. The movements of the work have these tempo markings:
Richard Taruskin has noted that the third section, the "Allegretto", is an arrangement of the Russian folk
l'Échaudé" (1874)
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