Angels We Have Heard on High
French carol (Les anges dans nos campagnes), from Carols Old and Carols New (Boston, 1916)
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 107: the middle speed of the 82 pieces in 4/4 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
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Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written183 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand141 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots68 notes
- Right-hand melody53 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 C4 to D5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from A2 to F4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 5ths, octaves, 4ths, 6ths, 3rds (skips)
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from The Parish Choir, Boston, 1916, ed. Charles L. Hutchins (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is a traditional tune. 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