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Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

Child Falling Asleep, from Kinderszenen

Kinderszenen No 12

Level
4 of 5
Key signature
1 sharp
Time
2/4
Length
32 bars
Plays in
about 1 min

Practise it

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The opening bars of Child Falling Asleep, from Kinderszenen
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece.

  • As written418 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand309 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots130 notes
  • Right-hand melody99 notes

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from G3 to B5, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from E1 to G4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 5ths, octaves, 6ths, 4ths, 7ths
  • Chords: inverted triads, triads, seventh chords
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns

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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits