Public-domain song
Silent Night
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 6/8
- Origin
- Written for Christmas Eve 1818 in Oberndorf.
Public domain: by Franz Xaver Gruber, who died in 1863; first published in 1818.
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
- 4 bars, 14 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 92
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- E4 to D5
- 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
- 12 bars, 46 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 104
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Range
- C4 to F5
- Note values
- dotted half notes, 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.