Study in C, Op. 17 No. 4, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Couppey wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 481 of the piece's 628 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: 147 of 628
Key: C major
Time: 3/4
Length: 48 bars

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The whole easy version147 notes

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The first 8 bars of Study in C, Op. 17 No. 4, 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 Study in C, Op. 17 No. 4's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from G. Schirmer, New York, 1893, ed. Wm. Scharfenberg, plate 10446 (scan on IMSLP), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Félix Le Couppey died in 1887. Credits