A Charge to Keep I Have, easy version

Melody and a simpler left hand

The melody as Mason wrote it, with each left-hand chord cut to its top and bottom notes. It leaves out 26 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: 78 of 104
Key: C major
Time: 3/4
Length: 9 bars

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The whole easy version78 notes

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The first 8 bars of A Charge to Keep I Have, 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 A Charge to Keep I Have's page.

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