Does anyone know of a good source for Christmas tunes in ABC format?
I will second that. I would love to find ANY source, ABC or other please and thank you 
I just checked JC’s ABC Tunefinder and found many copies of Silent Night:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/findtune?P=silent+night
You might find a few of your favorite Christmas tunes there.
Dave
I have whistle tab for a few favorite carols on my site.
Go to my](http://www.guitarnut.com/folktablature/index.html">my) folk tablature page
I haven’t had a chance to do anything with it in ages but there are a dozen or so carols there.
John
[ This Message was edited by: OutOfBreath on 2001-12-05 12:10 ]
[ This Message was edited by: OutOfBreath on 2001-12-05 12:10 ]
Thanks OutOfBreath. I just looked at your site and looks good to me. Thanks. Hopefully I will get to it tonight after work
Thanks from me too OOB.
I do have a question…I have been trying to figure out ‘What Child Is This’ but could not do it because of the range. Then I saw it on your site, but it goes below the low D…how do you do that?
Liz
Our very own Wandering_Whistler has a few carols and Xmas songs on his page.
Go here. Then select Christmas/Religious.
This isn’t actually ABC notation, but a nice Christmas piece. MoR recently mentioned a site called http://www.music-scores.com. I used the composer index there and found J.S.Bach’s “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring” arranged for piano in G. It works beautifully for a whistle/piano duet. Except for bars 37 to 50 which require some half-holing it’s pretty straight forward and seems almost to have been written for a whistle. It’s like Celtic music. There is no place to breathe. (Well, okay, there are a couple of 3 bar sections for you to hyperventilate to get ready for the next bit, and part of another bar to breathe, but that’s it.) Still, it’s a beautifully simple piece of music, and well worth passing out for.
The site recently mentioned – http://www.guitarnut.com has a good selection in musical notation with whistle fingerings underneath.
Steve
These aren’t in ABCs, but the collection is extensive:
I do have a question…I have been trying to figure out ‘What Child Is This’ but could not do it because of the range. Then I saw it on your site, but it goes below the low D…how do you do that?
Lizzie ~ playing this in church this week and last. At the end of the first line where it goes down to B…I play F G F and at the end I play the D# E G E E. Hope you can figure out what I mean…not the best at explaining this stuff. Good luck. Gm
How do you get the quote to come out smaller than original text? ie my post above where I quoted Lizzie???
Also, would anyone have music or tablature for White Christmas or I’ll Be Home for Christmas or is that heavily guarded in the copyright system? Just played I’ll Be Home…on my low D…worked out pretty well. Gm
[ This Message was edited by: Grannymouse on 2001-12-15 00:29 ]
Grannymouse and Lizzie,
About the range in “What Child is This”. I thought the same thing. Then I thought maybe I need to start the song in the 2nd octave … then I read this note below the music:
Note that this is not the easiest of the carols for a beginner because there are several accidentals that are half-holed and the range of the song is so great. If you are playing in an ensemble you can usually get away with either resting on the notes marked with a down arrow (indicating a note below the lowest note on the whistle) or playing them softly in the low octave.
Enjoy!
Granny
I’ve been figuring out White Christmas and it seem to work like …
B2CnatBAGCnat2C#d2
ef_g_a2gf2e_d3
GAB~B~Bed
G~G~GdCnatB2CnatBAG_A
BA:|
Note: I’m not real fluent in ABC notation.
Its basically in the key of G. In the above the underscores(_) indicate slurs and the tilde (~)indicate grace notes added to separate the tones. The tricky part was the C natural and C sharp in the first phrase.
BTW to invoke a quote you type openbracket-q-u-o-t-e-closebracket (no dashes just the characters) to start a quote and openbracket-backslash-q-u-o-t-e-closebracket to end the quote. You can find codes outlined in FAQ link between memberlist and logout above the edit form. If you righ click on the FAQ link and open it in a new window you can flip between the windows to check your work.
There are BBcodes for Bold Italics Underlining as well as how to do lists, images, links, and quotes.
Also:
I posted a <a href=http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?topic=1472&forum=1>Christmas Carol Cheat Sheet a little while ago, click on the link to take a look. Its a start that I find usually enought to figure the rest out by ear.
Hope this helps and …
Enjoy Your Music,
Lee Marsh
[ This Message was edited by: LeeMarsh on 2001-12-15 01:17 ]
[ This Message was edited by: LeeMarsh on 2001-12-15 01:20 ]
To quote an existing message you would just click on the quote link just below that person’s posted message.
God bless,
Mo
“Remember that your attitude determines your altitude”.
[ This Message was edited by: MoR on 2001-12-15 01:12 ]
The you edit the message as follows:
On 2001-12-15 01:10, MoR wrote:
To quote an existing message you would just click on the quote link just below that person’s posted message.
I cut out my signature … try it … when you do it it will show you how you can do it yourself.
On 2001-12-14 19:53, Grannymouse wrote:
I do have a question…I have been trying to figure out ‘What Child Is This’ but could not do it because of the range. Then I saw it on your site, but it goes below the low D…how do you do that?
The melody of “What Child Is This” is “Greensleeves”. Here is an arrangement in G that works nicely on the whistle:
X: 2
T:What Child Is This [G]
C:Traditional (Greensleeves), Words: William C. Dix
S:MySheetMusic.com
Z:ABC by Thornton Rose, December 2001
N:Original score in C.
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=130
K:G
A | "Am"c2 d | "D7"e>f e | "G"d2 B |
"Em"G>A B | "F"c2 A | A>^G A | "E"B2 ^G |
E2 A | "Am"c2 d | "D7"e>f e | "G"d2 B |
"Em"G>A B | "F"c>B A | "E7"^G>F G | "Am"A3 | A3 |
"C"g3 | g>f e | "Bm"d2 B |
"Em"G>A B | "Am"c2 A | "F"A>^G A | "E"B2 ^G |
E3 | "C"g3 | g>f e | "G"d2 B |
"Em"G>A B | "F"c>B A | "E7"^G>F G | "Am"A3 | A2 |]
W:1. What child is this, who, laid to rest,
W:On Mary's lap is sleeping?
W:Whom angels greet with anthems sweet
W:While shepherds watch are keeping?
W:
W:Chorus:
W:This, this is Christ the King,
W:Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
W:This, this is Christ the King,
W:The Babe, the Son of Mary.
W:
W:2. Why lies He in such mean estate
W:Where ox and ass are feeding?
W:Good Christian, fear, for sinners here
W:The silent Word is pleading.
W:(Chorus)
W:
W:3. So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh
W:Come, peasant, King to own Him;
W:The King of Kings salvation brings
W:Let loving hearts enthrone him.
W:(Chorus)
~ Thornton
[ This Message was edited by: ThorntonRose on 2001-12-15 14:17 ]
I’m beginning to feel like that 3 Stooges classic…Who’s on first and What’s on second…
That wasn’t my quote but Lizzie’s. I already play What Child Is This.
I do appreciate the notes for White Christmas…I don’t really do the ABC either except in a pinch. I much prefer a numerical tablature if I can’t have the score. As for the quote question…think I’ll try for the clicking “quote” below the poster or postee and hope for the best. I know 2 + 2 = 4 but it makes me nervous. Gm
Sorry to misquote you, Grannymouse.
For any that might want them, here are the sheet music and the ABC file for “What Child Is This?”:
- [Sheet music (GIF)](http://home.mindspring.com/~thornton.rose/tunes/WhatChildIsThis.gif)
- [ABC file](http://home.mindspring.com/~thornton.rose/tunes/WhatChildIsThis.abc.txt)
ABC2Win:
http://www.abc2win.com
~ Thornton
[ This Message was edited by: ThorntonRose on 2001-12-20 11:41 ]
Hi Grannymouse.
I thought I was going a bit crazy cause I was sure your name was beside the request with What Child Is This. I looked again and sure enough I am not going crazy … well … not for that reason anyway. Then it dawned on me that you were quoting Lizzie in that post!!!
If the QUOTE thing will not work for you then may I suggest you just do something like this:
Grannymouse said:
stuff you want to quote
If you type in your intention we will figure it out even if you don’t use the special quoting stuff on the board.
However, I think you’ll figure out the quote thing ok. It really is not that hard. If you want to test it out go to the Test Forum on the main page of this board:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewforum.php?forum=4&73
I think someone else may have mentioned the FAQ … just in case I’ll add it here too for you.
FAQ explanation of this stuff:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/faq.php#bbcode
Just scroll down a bit to find the QUOTE explanation.
Actually … I figured out how to print that part of the FAQ! This is for quoting manually … using the quote link below a message will do most of this for you automatically!
Quoting Other Messages
To reference something specific that someone has posted, just cut and paste the applicable verbiage and enclose it as shown below (BBCode is in red).
Ask not what your country can do for you.... ask what you can do for your country.
In the example above, the BBCode automatically indents the text you reference.
Happy quoting!
God bless,
Mo
“Remember that your attitude determines your altitude”.
[ This Message was edited by: MoR on 2001-12-15 17:52 ]