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Italian Sailors' Song, Op. 68 No. 36, easy version

Melody and a simpler left hand

The melody as Schumann wrote it, with each left-hand chord cut to its top and bottom notes. It leaves out 243 of the piece's 831 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 3 of 7, where the piece as written is level 4.

Level: 3 of 7
As written: Level 4
Notes: 588 of 831
Key: G minor
Time: 6/8
Length: 59 bars

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The first 8 bars of Italian Sailors' Song, Op. 68 No. 36, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 4, and all 4 of its versions are on Italian Sailors' Song, Op. 68 No. 36's page.

Score typeset by Philippe Hézaine for the Mutopia Project (CC BY-SA 2.5), adapted for Clefsight; our version and its easier versions are shared under the same licence; the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits

Community source. A Mutopia Project volunteer's edition that passed our checks: every bar complete, every chord within reach of a hand, repeats that can be followed, and the key its title names. It hasn't been compared bar by bar with a printed edition yet. How we check Heard a wrong note? Tell us