Gustav Holst (1874–1934)

In the Bleak Midwinter, easy version

Melody and a simpler left hand

The melody as Holst wrote it, with each left-hand chord cut to its top and bottom notes. It leaves out 42 of the piece's 177 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: 135 of 177
Key: F major
Time: 4/4
Length: 17 bars

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The first 8 bars of In the Bleak Midwinter, 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 In the Bleak Midwinter's page.

Score typeset by Steve Dunlop for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Gustav Holst died in 1934. Credits