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Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

Harvest Song, Op. 68 No. 24

Ernteliedchen, from Album for the Young, Op. 68 (1848)

No. 24 of 43 in Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68

In Album for the Young

Level
3 of 7
Time
6/8
Length
53 bars
Plays in
1 to 2 min

No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at dotted quarter = 90: the middle speed of the 27 pieces in 6/8 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.

Practise it

Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.

The opening bars of Harvest Song, Op. 68 No. 24
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.

  • As written616 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand486 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots284 notes
  • Right-hand melody232 notes

To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from C4 to B5, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from E3 to G4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 3 sharps (A major or F♯ minor)
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key, naturals
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, whole notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 3rds (skips), 6ths, 7ths, octaves
  • Chords: triads, inverted triads
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms

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Score typed for Clefsight from G. Schirmer, New York, 1893, ed. Max Vogrich, plate 10496 (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

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