The Little Reaper (Album for the Young, Op. 68 No. 18)
R. Schumann
In C major, this piece is 53 chord changes across 36 bars under the notes on the page — a beginner-tier piece by our difficulty audit, 41 of 97 in the library, ranked easiest to hardest. Reduced to block chords, that's a progression you can learn in a sitting; the piece you're reading is that progression wearing figuration.
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- Blocked-chord reduction (MusicXML) — the harmony skeleton the player performs
- The piece as written (compressed MusicXML)