Blest Are the Pure in Heart, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as König wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 69 of the piece's 104 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: 35 of 104
Key: D major
Time: 4/4
Length: 9 bars

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The first 8 bars of Blest Are the Pure in Heart, 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 Blest Are the Pure in Heart's page.

Score typeset by Steve Dunlop for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Johann Balthasar König died in 1758, and so is William Henry Havergal’s arrangement. Credits