Sakura Sakura
by Traditional
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- Key
- A minor
- Tempo
- ♩ = 72
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 7
- Level
- Beginner · Difficulty 2 of 10
- Genre
- Folk songs
- Origin
- Japan
- Composer
- Traditional
About this piece
A Japanese folk tune published in 1888 in a collection for the koto. It uses a scale of five notes with half steps, the "in" scale, which gives it its quiet sadness.
Why it is free to use
A traditional tune with no known author, in print since about 1888. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.
About this score
This score of Sakura Sakura is a short excerpt (the opening, or the first verse of the song), not the whole piece. It was written by SampLab Pro from the public-domain music. It is not copied from any printed edition, MIDI file or recording. We place our score in the public domain (CC0 1.0): anyone may copy, change, share and use it, including commercially, without asking. The left hand is our own simple accompaniment, made from the chords of the tune.