William Fiske Sherwin (1826–1888)
Break Thou the Bread of Life
Hymn tune Bread of Life (1877)
In Hymns
- Level
- 3 of 5
- Key signature
- 2 sharps
- Time
- 4/4
- Length
- 16 bars
- Plays in
- about 1 min
Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.
Versions
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- As written158 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand120 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots56 notes
- Right-hand melody40 notes
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from A3 to D5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from G2 to D4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 sharps (D major or B minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes
- Intervals: 5ths, 6ths, octaves, 4ths, 10ths, 7ths
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds
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Score typeset by Steve Dunlop for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: William Fiske Sherwin died in 1888. Credits