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Let Our Gladness Have No End Recorder Notes with Letters

Letters and fingering pictures for soprano recorder, with the words under each note. Starts F G A B♭ C C C B♭.

Key
F major
Range
F4–D5
Length
42 notes
Melody
1500, public domain

The notes and words

Key: F major.

FLetGourAglad-B♭nessChaveCnoCend,

B♭Hal-Cle-Dlu-Cjah!

CForCtoB♭earthB♭didAChristAde-Gscend.

AHal-B♭le-Glu-Fjah!AOnGthisAdayB♭God

CgaveB♭AusAChrist,GHisASon,

B♭toCsaveB♭Aus;FChrist,DHisCSon,

AtoGsaveFus.

Baroque (English) fingering: filled = covered, open = open, half = cover the small hole only. Chart from the American Recorder Society.
  • Fcovered: thumb, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
  • Gcovered: thumb, 1, 2, 3
  • Acovered: thumb, 1, 2
  • B♭covered: thumb, 1, 3, 4
  • Ccovered: thumb, 2
  • Dcovered: 2

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Staff notation

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About this song

Melody
Tune NARODIL SE KRISTUS PÁN, Bohemian melody, 15th century, 1500
Words
Tobias Závorka, translated by Unknown translator, 1916 (first verse shown; all verses on HymnKeys)
Public domain
Melody 1500, words 1916: first published before 1931.
Source
Open Hymnal Project file marked public domain, via HymnKeys

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