Sincerity, Op. 100 No. 1, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Burgmüller wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 142 of the piece's 408 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: 266 of 408
Key: C major
Time: 4/4
Length: 38 bars

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The whole easy version266 notes

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The first 8 bars of Sincerity, Op. 100 No. 1, 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 Sincerity, Op. 100 No. 1's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from G. Schirmer, New York, 1903, ed. Louis Oesterle, plate 14104 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Friedrich Burgmüller died in 1874. Credits