Calixa Lavallée (1842–1891)
O Canada
Canada's national anthem in an easy setting in C, with fingering
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 written243 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand209 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots111 notes
- Right-hand melody83 notes
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 B3 to C5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from A2 to C4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 5ths, 3rds (skips), 6ths, 7ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Calixa Lavallée died in 1891. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one is free to use because its uploader released it into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Credits