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Frightening (Fürchtenmachen), from Kinderszenen, 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 285 of the piece's 753 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: 468 of 753
Key: G major
Time: 2/4
Length: 64 bars

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The whole easy version468 notes

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The first 8 bars of Frightening (Fürchtenmachen), from Kinderszenen, 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 Frightening (Fürchtenmachen), from Kinderszenen's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Theodore Presser Co., Philadelphia, 1907 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits