George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah
The chorus from Handel's oratorio Messiah, HWV 56 (1741), shortened and arranged in C (Handel wrote it in D)
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 written494 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand368 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots156 notes
- Right-hand melody132 notes
Its notes with letter names: the sheet music with each note's letter under it, and a drill of the notes it uses.
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 2, engraved on its own page.
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 G3 to E5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from G2 to G4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: 5ths, 6ths, 2nds (steps), octaves, 4ths, 3rds (skips)
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns
Sections
The piece in 3 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.
- Bars 1–11level 3 of 7
- Bars 12–19level 3 of 7
- Bars 20–27level 2 of 7
What stands between you and this piece
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Score from PDMX (Public Domain Mark 1.0); the composition is public domain: George Frideric Handel died in 1759. 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 uploader marking it public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0). Credits
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