For the Beauty of the Earth, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Kocher wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 109 of the piece's 165 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: 56 of 165
Key: G major
Time: 4/4
Length: 12 bars

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The first 8 bars of For the Beauty of the Earth, 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 For the Beauty of the Earth's page.

Score typeset by Steve Dunlop for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Conrad Kocher died in 1872. Credits