Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Stainer wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 83 of the piece's 124 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 2 of 7, where the piece as written is level 3.

Level: 2 of 7
As written: Level 3
Notes: 41 of 124
Key: G major
Time: 4/4
Length: 9 bars

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The first 8 bars of Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 3, and all 4 of its versions are on Love Divine, All Loves Excelling's page.

Score typeset by Peter Chubb for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: John Stainer died in 1901. Credits