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A Curious Story, 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 152 of the piece's 605 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: 453 of 605
Key: D major
Time: 3/4
Length: 41 bars

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The whole easy version453 notes

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The first 8 bars of A Curious Story, 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 A Curious Story, 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