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Traditional

The Coventry Carol

Lully, lullay: an English carol from the sixteenth century, arranged for piano

In Easy Christmas music

Level
3 of 5
Key signature
no sharps or flats
Time
3/4
Length
32 bars
Plays in
about 1 min

Practise it

Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.

The opening bars of The Coventry Carol
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.

  • As written165 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand148 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots94 notes
  • Right-hand melody62 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 E4 to E5
  • Bass clef from A2 to E4, 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
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 5ths, 4ths, 6ths, 3rds (skips), 3rds played together in one hand
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds

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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is a traditional tune. Credits