Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Clair de lune, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Debussy wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 64 of the piece's 146 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: 82 of 146
Key: C major
Time: 9/8
Length: 17 bars

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The whole easy version82 notes

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The first 8 bars of Clair de lune, 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 Clair de lune's page.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Claude Debussy died in 1918. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one is free to use because its uploader released it into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Credits