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Child Falling Asleep, 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 109 of the piece's 418 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 4 of 7, where the piece as written is level 5.

Level: 4 of 7
As written: Level 5
Notes: 309 of 418
Key signature: 1 sharp
Time: 2/4
Length: 32 bars

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The whole easy version309 notes

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The first 8 bars of Child Falling Asleep, from Kinderszenen, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 5, and all 4 of its versions are on Child Falling Asleep, from Kinderszenen's page.

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