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George Job Elvey (1816–1893)

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Hymn tune St. George's, Windsor (1858), as The Elmhurst Hymnal printed it (1921)

In Hymns

In Thanksgiving hymns

Level
3 of 7
Time
4/4
Length
16 bars
Plays in
about 1 min

No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 86: the usual pace of hymn tunes. Its length counts from that.

Practise it

Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.

The opening bars of Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.

  • As written214 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand161 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots72 notes
  • Right-hand melody56 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 B3 to E5, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from G2 to E4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key, naturals
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes
  • Intervals: 6ths, octaves, 5ths, 4ths, 7ths, 3rds (skips)
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds

What stands between you and this piece

Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.

Score typed for Clefsight from Eden Publishing House, St. Louis, 1921 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: George Job Elvey died in 1893. Credits