Adolphe Adam (1803–1856)
O Holy Night
Adolphe Adam's Cantique de Noël as Twice 55 Community Songs printed it (1919): the verse as the melody alone, then the refrain in four parts
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 92: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Andante. Its length counts from that.
Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.
- As written208 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand174 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots110 notes
- Right-hand melody98 notes
To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from D4 to F5
- Bass clef from A2 to F4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 5 flats (D♭ major or B♭ minor)
- Accidentals: naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 3rds (skips), 6ths, 5ths, octaves
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from C. C. Birchard and Company, Boston, 1919, ed. Peter W. Dykema, Will Earhart, Osbourne McConathy and Hollis Dann (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Adolphe Adam died in 1856. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one rests on its source’s licence (CC0 1.0). Credits