Calixa Lavallée (1842–1891)
O Canada, in four parts
Canada's national anthem harmonised in E flat
In National anthems and patriotic songs
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 written329 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand243 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots111 notes
- Right-hand melody83 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 A3 to E5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from E2 to D4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 3 flats (E♭ major or C minor)
- Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 5ths, 4ths, 6ths, octaves, 7ths, 3rds played together in one hand
- Chords: inverted triads
- 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 from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Calixa Lavallée died in 1891, and so is William Lowe’s arrangement. Credits