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An Important Event, 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 339 of the piece's 440 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: 101 of 440
Key: A major
Time: 3/4
Length: 25 bars

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The whole easy version101 notes

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The first 8 bars of An Important Event, 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 An Important Event, 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