Good King Wenceslas: notes for 8 instruments
“Good King Wenceslas looked out…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.
- PianoLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- RecorderLetters · G majorD4–D5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)G3–G4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · F major (written)C4–C5 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · G major (written)D4–D5 Medium
Not on bells & xylophone, harmonica: no key keeps every note on those instruments without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even.
Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight, gath'ring winter fuel.
About this song
- Melody
- Tune TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM, from Swedish Piae Cantones (1582), 1582
- Words
- John Mason Neale (1818–1866), 1853 (first verse shown; all verses on HymnKeys)
- Public domain
- Melody 1582, words 1853: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Open Hymnal Project file marked public domain, via HymnKeys