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Schumann: Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15

Thirteen scenes of childhood written in 1838, memories for grown-up players rather than pieces for children; Träumerei is the seventh.

The library has 7 of the book's 13 numbers, levels 4 to 5. Not in the library: No. 7 (Träumerei), No. 8 (By the Fireside), No. 9 (Knight of the Hobby-Horse), No. 10 (Almost Too Serious), No. 11 (Frightening), and No. 13 (The Poet Speaks).

Pieces

7

Levels

4 to 5

Key signatures

1 sharp to 3 sharps

Length

17 to 41 bars

In the book's order

Each with its number and level, and easier versions made from the score itself, so you can start below a piece's level and work up to it as written.

• Of Foreign Lands and Peoples, from Kinderszenen
  1 sharp, 2/4, 22 bars
  No. 1 of 13; level 4
• A Curious Story, from Kinderszenen
  2 sharps, 3/4, 41 bars
  No. 2 of 13; level 4
• Blind Man's Buff, from Kinderszenen
  2 sharps, 2/4, 32 bars
  No. 3 of 13; level 5
• Pleading Child, from Kinderszenen
  2 sharps, 2/4, 17 bars
  No. 4 of 13; level 4
• Happy Enough, from Kinderszenen
  2 sharps, 2/4, 25 bars
  No. 5 of 13; level 5
• An Important Event, from Kinderszenen
  3 sharps, 3/4, 25 bars
  No. 6 of 13; level 4
• Child Falling Asleep, from Kinderszenen
  1 sharp, 2/4, 32 bars
  No. 12 of 13; level 5

An order to learn them in

The same pieces from the easiest, by the level fitted to each score; within a level, in the book's order. Teachers skip about in these books, and so can you.

1. Level 4 Pleading Child, from Kinderszenen · Of Foreign Lands and Peoples, from Kinderszenen · An Important Event, from Kinderszenen · A Curious Story, from Kinderszenen
2. Level 5 Happy Enough, from Kinderszenen · Blind Man's Buff, from Kinderszenen · Child Falling Asleep, from Kinderszenen

Other teaching books

Every book five or more library pieces are from.

• Köhler's Very Easiest Exercise Pieces, Op. 190 24
• Duvernoy's École primaire, Op. 176 16 of 25
• Mozart's first pieces, K. 1a–1f 6 of 6
• Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook (1725) 10 of 20
• Burgmüller's 25 Easy Studies, Op. 100 16 of 25
• Le Couppey's L'Alphabet, Op. 17 25 of 25
• Lemoine's Études enfantines, Op. 37 29 of 50
• Czerny's 160 Eight-Measure Exercises, Op. 821 19 of 160
• Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299 6 of 40
• Clementi's Six Sonatinas, Op. 36 6 of 6
• Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68 21 of 43
• Schumann's Kinderszenen, Op. 15 7 of 13
• Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28 8 of 24