Public-domain song
Greensleeves
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 6/8
- Origin
- An English ballad tune, registered in 1580.
Public domain: a traditional tune, first published in 1580.
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
- 5 bars, 19 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 65
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Range
- E4 to F5
- Note values
- dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, dotted eighth notes, 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
- 17 bars, 70 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 75
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Range
- E4 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.