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Two

FIFTEEN FOUR-HAND PIECES FOR THE

PIANOFORTE, WITH VISITS TO NEIGHBORING KEYS, COMPOSED W ARRANGED BY

SUSAN SCHMITT

A,
BOSTON, MASS.

THE BOSTON MUSIC

NEW YORK
Berlin

Ed.

AND LONDON
Bote & G. Bock Sydney
Paris
Costallat & Cie.

G.

CO.

SCHIRMER

Paling

&

Co., Ltd.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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May Song
"

"

in

Fiddle Dee-Dee

in

8a

The Little Shadow

8b

"

Air

Folk Song

3a

German Sickle Song

3b

14

14

14

in

in

10

12

"

"

in

14

in

14
16

Die Muhle am Bach

18

(The Mill by the Brook)

4a

Frohe Botschaft

in

(Good News)
"

4b
5a

Evening Bells

11a
in

lib

in

12

The Hobby Horse

"

"

6a

6b

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SCHLAF, KlNDCHEN, SCHLAF

(Sleep, Baby, Sleep)
41

SCHONE MlNKA
(Fairest

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13

Bohemian Song

22

14

Black Key Lullaby

24

15

The Mill

26

10

10

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These

the Teacher

five-note pieces, for piano four-hands, are arranged so that the pupil can

little

They form a

play either part.

suitable course of sight reading in the first grades.

written in an easy key, and repeated in another, sometimes

more

difficult,

Those

are intended to

accustom the child's ear to distinguish changes of tone-color, besides affording a desirable
readjustment of the hand position.
When the fingers have become used to a particular fivenote compass, they learn to find the intervals more readily, and are soon able to play without
the stuttering and halting which destroys the sense of rhythmic continuity, and kills musical
understanding.

My affection
of love to arrange
If

for the little

German

them so that both

folk-songs, included in this collection,

treble

made

and bass parts could be read with equal

the children enjoy the reading lesson,

my

aim

will

it

a labor

facility.

be accomplished.

SUSAN SCHMITT

To

the Little Boys

and

Girls

come and ride with me on my broomstick,

round the sun, then round the moon,
And we'll light on the steeple to hear a merry tune.
Will you

far

and wide?

First

Kate Greenaway

Subdue the Bass!

When you have

the noisy bass notes, don't thunder!!!

boy once played so loud,

That the thunder up in a thunder cloud
Said, "Since I can't be heard, why, then,
little

I'll

never, never thunder again."

Eugene Field

The World's Music

The world's a very happy place,
Where every child should dance and
And always have a smiling face
And never sulk at anything.

sing

R. L. Stevenson
{Prom "Tk* Booh

B.

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May Song
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German
Bald gras
Bald gras

ich
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Song

Sickle

am Neckar,
am Rhein

Soon

will

And

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German
Bald gras ich
Bald gras ich

Song

Sickle

am Neckar,
am Rhein

Soon

will

And soon
Primo

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by the Rhine

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Sickle
Primo

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4(a)

Frohe Botschaft
Good news
A
A

little

bird

little

bird

comes flying from a branch on a tree,

comes flying with a message for me.
Secondo

Arranged by

SUSAN SCHMITT

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Arrang-ed by

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Frohe Botschaft
Good news
A
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little
little

comes flying from a branch on a tree,

bird comes flying with a message for me.

bird

Arrang-ed by

Primo

Allegro

ten.

SUSAN SCHMITT

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Arrang-ed by

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Evening Bells
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Allegro moderato

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Evening Bells

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Piano

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bell,

Do

bell,

you

hear

eve-ning bell?

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are

ring

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Evening Bells
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6(a)

Schlaf, Kindchen, Schlaf

Sleep, baby, sleep
Secondo

Arranged by

SUSAN SCHMITT

Allegro moderato: con espressione

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Schlaf, Kindchen, Schlaf

Sleep, baby, sleep
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Schlaf, Kindchen, Schlaf

Sleep, baby, sleep
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Fiddle Dee -Dee

There once was a bird that lived up in a

And

all

he could whistle

was

tree,

Fiddle Dee-dee.

SUSAN SCHMITT

Allegro moderato

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Dee

Dee,

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Fiddle Dee -Dee

There once was a bird that lived up

And

all

he could whistle

was

in a tree,
Fiddle Dee-dee.

Primo

Allegro moderato

SUSAN SCHMITT

(The wind moves the branches)

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The

Shadow

Little

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,

And what can be the use of him is more than I can see,
He is very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

SUSAN SCHMITT

Secondo

Allegro moderato
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The
I

have a

little

Shadow

Little

shadow

that

goes

in

and out with me,

And what can be the use of him is more than I can see,
He is very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
Primo

Allegro moderato

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Air
JOSEPH HAYDN
SUSAN SCHMITT

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JOSEPH HAYDN
Arranged by SUSAN SCHMITT

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Die Miihle
The mill by

am Bach
the brook

From dawn to dark, the old Mill-wheel

Makes music going round and round;
And dusty white with flour and meal,

The brook that flows beside the

As happy as a brook can be,
Goes singing its old song,

The Miller whistles

Until

to its sound.

it

learns the singing of the sea.

Secondo

Arrang-ed by

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Die Muhle
The mill by

19

am Bach
the brook

From dawn to dark, the old Mill-wheel

Makes music going round and round;
And dusty white with flour and meal,

The brook that flows beside the

As happy as a brook can be,

The Miller whistles

Until

Goes singing

to its sound.

Primo

Piano

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its old song,

learns the singing of the sea.

Arranged by SUSAN SCHMITT

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The
There was a

little

Little

(a)

Hobby- Horse

Hobby-horse,

But his master said"lf it be so,

That you will only play,
You idle rogue, you shall not eat
My nice sweet clover-hay."

Whose name I do not know,

An idlelitte Hobby-horse,
That said he would'nt go.
Then Hobby shook his head,

And

said,' If that's the case,

Rather than go without my hay,

I'll try and mend my pace'.'

Secondo

Molto allegro

SUSAN SCHMITT

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SUSAN SCHMITT

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The
There was a

litte

Hobby-Horse

Little

Hobby-horse,

But his master said"lf it be so

That you will only play,
You idle rogue, you shall not eat
My nice sweet clover- hay."

Whose name I do not know,

An idle little Hobby-horse,
That said he would'nt go.

Then Hobby shook his head,

And said, "If that's the case,
Rather than go without my hay,
I'll try and mend my pace'.'
Primo

SUSAN SCHMITT
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The Mill
Any

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grist for the mill. Flap, flap, flap, flap,

merrily it goes, While the water flows.

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ADOLPH JENSEN
Allegretto con anima

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Any

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Mill

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merrily it goes, While the water flows.

Primo

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Arranged by SUSAN SCHMITT

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Op. 42.
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1.

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4.

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WlUls, Op. 13, Six Duets in Unfamiliar Keys

for

131a
132

In the Woodland

To Nod-Land

Modern Dance Album, Volume 1

Neupert-Friedman, Thirty-three Studies.
Ncvln [Ethelbert], Op. 7, Four Pieces

FOUR HANDS

Schmitt [Susan], Easy Tunes

56
53
54

Russer, Op. 52, Three Pieces

Hollaender, Op. 48. Six Easy Pieces
Op. 48, Six Easy Pieces, 'Cello part alone
Nolck, Op. 43, Six Character Pieces

Messager, Dance-Suite..
Meyer Helmund, Op. 135, Four Nocturnes

47

PIANO,

No.

.50

Childnood Joys

Maxim, Album

307

62
52
60
61

60
60
60
60
60
60
60

Becker, Carnival Sketches

21

332a/b
331
312

59

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ST.

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