This collection comprises twelve short piano pieces designed for young pianists.

1. Prélude
2. Intermezzo
3. Canzonetta
4. Rondeau
5. Gavotte
6. Gigue
7. Romance
8. Barcarolle
9. Orientale
10. Tarentelle
11. Air de Ballet
12. Marche Russe

No. 3 features a simple melody accompanied by eighth notes in the left hand. The time signature is 4/4.

No. 5 is a contredanse, a popular dance form of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This piece is written in compound duple meter (6/8).

No. 9 is not written in a conventional major or minor key. It opens with a suggestive sense of E minor in the left hand, while the right hand introduces a scale beginning on E with F-sharp and C-sharp, creating an ambiguous modal sonority.

No. 10 is a lively folk dance in the style of a tarantella, traditionally associated with the belief that dancing could cure the effects of a tarantula’s bite. According to various versions of the legend, performing the dance served as an antidote to the spider’s venom. Characteristic musical features of the tarantella include repeated notes, the alternation of a note with its upper or lower neighbor, scalar passages, leaps, and arpeggios. The piece follows a ternary (ABA) form, featuring a significant modulation from A minor to C major and back to A minor: A (mm. 1–17), A minor; B (mm. 18–29), primarily C major with a brief excursion to G major, returning through C major to A minor; A (mm. 30–52), A minor.