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Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

Of Foreign Lands and Peoples, from Kinderszenen

From Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15 (1838)

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

Practise it

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The opening bars of Of Foreign Lands and Peoples, from Kinderszenen
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.

  • As written224 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand172 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots72 notes
  • Right-hand melody50 notes

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from B3 to G5, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from F2 to E4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
  • Intervals: 5ths, octaves, 2nds (steps), 6ths, 4ths, 3rds (skips)
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms

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