Lowell Mason (1792–1872)
A Charge to Keep I Have
Hymn tune Boylston (1832)
In Hymns
- Level
- 3 of 5
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 3/4
- Length
- 9 bars
- Plays in
- about 1 min
Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written104 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand78 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots35 notes
- Right-hand melody26 notes
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 C4 to C5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from G2 to C4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes
- Intervals: 5ths, 4ths, octaves, 6ths, 10ths, 3rds played together in one hand
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds
What stands between you and this piece
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Score typeset by Steve Dunlop for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Lowell Mason died in 1872. Credits