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Pleading Child, from Kinderszenen, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Schumann wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 148 of the piece's 222 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: 74 of 222
Key signature: 2 sharps
Time: 2/4
Length: 17 bars

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The first 8 bars of Pleading Child, 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 Pleading Child, from Kinderszenen's page.

Score typeset by Ying-Chun Liu for the Mutopia Project (CC BY 3.0), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits