Béla Bartók (1881–1945)

For Children No. 9, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Bartók wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 24 of the piece's 112 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 3 of 7, where the piece as written is level 4.

Level: 3 of 7
As written: Level 4
Notes: 88 of 112
Key signature: no sharps or flats
Time: 2/4
Length: 45 bars

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The whole easy version88 notes

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The first 8 bars of For Children No. 9, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 4, and all 4 of its versions are on For Children No. 9's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Rozsnyai Károly, Budapest (printed by C. G. Röder, Leipzig–Budapest), 1909, plate R.K. 376 (scan on IMSLP), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Béla Bartók died in 1945. Credits