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The Hobby Horse, Op. 39 No. 3, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Tchaikovsky wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 568 of the piece's 854 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: 286 of 854
Key: D major
Time: 3/8
Length: 72 bars

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The whole easy version286 notes

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The first 8 bars of The Hobby Horse, Op. 39 No. 3, 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 Hobby Horse, Op. 39 No. 3's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from G. Schirmer, New York, 1904, ed. Adolf Ruthardt, plate 17224 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in 1893. Credits