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The Reaper's Song, Op. 68 No. 18, 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 100 of the piece's 458 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: 358 of 458
Key: C major
Time: 6/8
Length: 44 bars

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The whole easy version358 notes

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The first 8 bars of The Reaper's Song, Op. 68 No. 18, 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 The Reaper's Song, Op. 68 No. 18's page.

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