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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Mendelssohn wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 178 of the piece's 275 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: 97 of 275
Key: G major
Time: 4/4
Length: 21 bars

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The whole easy version97 notes

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The first 8 bars of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, 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 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Eaton & Mains, New York, 1905 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Felix Mendelssohn died in 1847. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one rests on its source’s licence (CC0 1.0). Credits