Good King Wenceslas
Good King Wenceslas in A major: the notation, the chords with shapes for piano, guitar and ukulele. Public domain.
- Key
- A major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- ♩ = 140
- Author
- traditional
- Written
- 'Tempus Adest Floridum' 13th Century spring carol; first published in the Swedish Piae Cantones, 1582.
The notation
Engraving not yet checked by hand. Time signature, key, bar count and the length of every single bar have been checked against the source by machine. Whether every slur and beam is also set the way it is usually set has not yet been reviewed by a musician.
The chords
About the piece
Melody and setting from the Open Hymnal Project, a public domain collection of Christian hymnody. Words: John Mason Neale, 1853.
Public domain — both the work and the engraving. The setting comes from the Open Hymnal Project, which marks its editions as public domain explicitly.
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