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Trumpet Tune, from The Indian Queen, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Purcell wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 100 of the piece's 282 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: 182 of 282
Key: C major
Time: 3/4
Length: 24 bars

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The whole easy version182 notes

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The first 8 bars of Trumpet Tune, from The Indian Queen, 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 Trumpet Tune, from The Indian Queen's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Novello, Ewer and Co., London, 1895, ed. W. Barclay Squire and E. J. Hopkins, plate 10040 (scan on IMSLP), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Henry Purcell died in 1695. Credits