Once in Royal David's City, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Gauntlett wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 128 of the piece's 195 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: 67 of 195
Key: F major
Time: 4/4
Length: 13 bars

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The whole easy version67 notes

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The first 8 bars of Once in Royal David's City, 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 Once in Royal David's City's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Oxford University Press, London, 1906, ed. Ralph Vaughan Williams (music) (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Henry Gauntlett died in 1876. Credits