Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Mendelssohn · 1840 · Medium

Medium 96 BPM Right hand 1840

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is a piece by Mendelssohn, first published in 1840. In Freano it is rated “Medium” and is one of the app's 64 free public-domain pieces.

The app plays it at 96 beats per minute. The melody has 15 notes and takes about 10 seconds at full speed, so you can play it through several times in one short practice session.

It uses 7 different keys, from G4 to G5 — a span of 12 semitones.

Everything is on the white keys, which makes it a good choice in your first weeks.

The fastest notes are eighth notes.

In Freano it is a right-hand melody; there is no left-hand part for it yet.

How you learn it in Freano

Notes fall toward the keyboard and the key to press lights up. If you miss, the piece stops and waits — nothing runs away from you. Play at 50, 75 or 100% speed, with the metronome on if you like. The notes you missed are collected into a short exercise you can repeat right away. Use the on-screen keyboard, a microphone next to your piano, or a MIDI keyboard over USB or Bluetooth.

About the music rights

This melody was published in 1840, more than a hundred years ago, and is in the public domain. Freano only includes music that is at least a century old, enters the melody itself rather than copying anyone's arrangement, and writes its own left-hand parts.

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