In the Bleak Midwinter: notes for 8 instruments
“In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan…” 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 · F majorD4–D5 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorA4–A5 Medium
- RecorderLetters · F majorD4–D5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorA4–A5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · C majorA4–A5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)A3–A4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · F major (written)D4–D5 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · F 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)
In the bleak midwinfrosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow snow, snow on snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
About this song
- Melody
- Tune CRANHAM, Gustav Theodore Holst, 1906
- Words
- Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894), 1872 (first verse shown; all verses on HymnKeys)
- Public domain
- Melody 1906, words 1872: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Open Hymnal Project file marked public domain, via HymnKeys