The Twelve Days of Christmas: notes for 9 instruments
“On the first day of Christmas…” 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 majorC4–D5 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorG4–A5 Medium
- RecorderLetters · F majorC4–D5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorG4–A5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · C majorG4–A5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)G3–A4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · F major (written)C4–D5 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · G major (written)D4–E5 Medium
- HarmonicaTabs · C majorG4–A5 Medium
Not on bells & xylophone: no key keeps every note on that instrument without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
About this song
- Melody
- Traditional English, arranged by Frederic Austin, 1909
- Words
- Traditional, 1909 (first verse shown)
- Public domain
- Melody 1909, words 1909: first published before 1931.
- Source
- The Twelve Days of Christmas, traditional, arranged by Frederic Austin (Novello & Co., 1909), p. 2 (1909)