Louis Bourgeois (1510–1560)

Old Hundredth, easy version

Melody and a simpler left hand

The melody as Bourgeois wrote it, with each left-hand chord cut to its top and bottom notes. It leaves out 32 of the piece's 130 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 2 of 7, where the piece as written is level 3.

Level: 2 of 7
As written: Level 3
Notes: 98 of 130
Key: G major
Time: 4/2
Length: 13 bars

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The whole easy version98 notes

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The first 8 bars of Old Hundredth, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 3, and all 4 of its versions are on Old Hundredth's page.

Score typeset by Peter Chubb for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Louis Bourgeois died in 1560, and so is John Dowland’s arrangement. Credits