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William Henry Havergal (1793–1870)

Christian! Seek Not Yet Repose

William Henry Havergal's tune to Charlotte Elliott's hymn (1836)

In Hymns

Level
3 of 7
Time
2/2
Length
15 bars
Plays in
about 20 seconds

Practise it

Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.

The opening bars of Christian! Seek Not Yet Repose
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.

  • As written93 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand68 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots39 notes
  • Right-hand melody24 notes

The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 2, engraved on its own page.

To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from G3 to D5, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from G2 to D4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes
  • Intervals: octaves, 4ths, 6ths, 5ths, 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips)
  • Chords: inverted triads, triads
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds

Sections

The piece in 2 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.

  1. Bars 1–7level 3 of 7
  2. Bars 8–15level 3 of 7

What stands between you and this piece

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Score from a copy shared on MuseScore (Public Domain Mark 1.0); the composition is public domain: William Henry Havergal died in 1870. Credits

Community source. A copy shared on MuseScore that passed our checks: every bar complete, every chord within reach of a hand, repeats that can be followed, and the key its title names. It hasn't been compared bar by bar with a printed edition yet. How we check Heard a wrong note? Tell us

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