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New Year's Eve, Op. 68 No. 43, 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 keeps 228 of the piece's 776 notes and adds none: a sketch of the piece in its own notes, to read before the real thing. Level 3 of 7, where the piece as written is level 4.

Level: 3 of 7
As written: Level 4
Notes: 228 of 776
Key: A major
Time: 4/4
Length: 31 bars

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The whole easy version228 notes

Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.

The first 8 bars of New Year's Eve, Op. 68 No. 43, 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 New Year's Eve, Op. 68 No. 43's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from G. Schirmer, New York, 1893, ed. Max Vogrich, plate 10496 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits