O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)
German Christmas song, in four parts as Christmas in Song, Sketch, and Story printed it (1891)
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 92: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Andante. Its length counts from that.
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 written245 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand186 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots81 notes
- Right-hand melody64 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 D4 to E5
- Bass clef from D3 to E4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 5ths, 4ths, octaves, 7ths, 6ths, 3rds played together in one hand
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from Harper & Brothers, New York, 1891, ed. J. P. McCaskey (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