Prelude to Carmen, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Bizet wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It keeps 725 of the piece's 1935 notes and adds none: a sketch of the piece in its own notes, to read before the real thing. Level 4 of 7, where the piece as written is level 5.

Level: 4 of 7
As written: Level 5
Notes: 725 of 1935
Key: A major
Time: 2/4
Length: 135 bars

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The first 8 bars of Prelude to Carmen, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 5, and all 4 of its versions are on Prelude to Carmen's page.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Georges Bizet died in 1875, and so is Armando Tinajero’s arrangement. Credits

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