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May, Lovely May, Op. 68 No. 13, 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 104 of the piece's 758 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 4 of 7, where the piece as written is level 5.

Level: 4 of 7
As written: Level 5
Notes: 654 of 758
Key: E major
Time: 2/4
Length: 53 bars

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The first 8 bars of May, Lovely May, Op. 68 No. 13, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 5, and all 4 of its versions are on May, Lovely May, Op. 68 No. 13's page.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits