Public-domain song
Here Comes the Bride
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Origin
- The tune that opens the Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin" (premiered 1850), once through; Part 1 is its opening phrase.
Public domain: by Richard Wagner, who died in 1883; first published in 1851.
Written out here note by note as a melody only: no lyrics and no accompaniment.
The two parts
Part 1
The phrase people know, short enough to learn in a sitting.
- Length
- 2 bars, 8 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 70
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Range
- G4 to D5
- Note values
- dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, dotted eighth notes, sixteenth notes
Part 2: the complete song
The whole tune: its melody once through to its end, without the repeats a performance would add.
- Length
- 8 bars, 36 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 80
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Range
- G4 to G5
- Note values
- dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, dotted eighth notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes
Earn a star on the first part to open the complete song.
Lessons that use this song
Each of these lessons opens the first part.