All 7 play where the library writes them. Nothing here is marked by guesswork: a song is listed only if every one of its notes is a note this instrument can sound, and the line under each title gives the range it covers on the guzheng.
Nursery rhymes & first tunes for guzheng
The short tunes most people learn an instrument on.
Christmas songs & carols for guzheng
Carols and winter songs old enough to belong to everyone.
Folk & traditional songs for guzheng
Songs passed on by singing long before anyone printed them.
Classical melodies for guzheng
Themes from the concert hall that fit under one hand.
Songs the guzheng cannot play
29 songs in the library are left out, because no size, key or octave here has every note. These are the notes each would need in its closest fit:
- Lightly Row — needs G4.
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star — needs G4.
- Happy Birthday — needs C♯5, G5.
- Ode to Joy — needs G4.
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat — needs G4.
- Jingle Bells — needs G4.
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas — needs C♯5, G5.
- Yankee Doodle — needs C♯5, G5.
- Silent Night — needs G4, C♯5, G5.
- London Bridge — needs G4.
- When the Saints Go Marching In — needs G4.
- Frère Jacques — needs G4.
- Brahms' Lullaby — needs G4, C♯5.
- Sakura Sakura — needs G4, C♯5.
- Linstead Market — needs C♯4, G4.
- Canon in D — needs G4, C♯5.
- Deck the Halls — needs C♯5, G5, C♯6.
- O Christmas Tree — needs C♯5, G5.
- Joy to the World — needs G4, C♯5.
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — needs C♯5, G5.
- O Come, All Ye Faithful — needs C♯5, G5.
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen — needs C♯5, G5.
- Away in a Manger — needs C♯5, G5.
- The First Noel — needs G4, C♯5.
- Good King Wenceslas — needs C♯5, G5.
- Up on the Housetop — needs G4.
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas — needs C♯5.
- O Holy Night — needs G4, G♯4, C♯5.
- Carol of the Bells — needs G♯4, A♯4, C♯5, G5.
Songs that are not here
Everything on this page is public domain — traditional melodies and pieces old enough to belong to everyone. Film, game and pop songs are still in copyright, and an arrangement of one is a copy of the melody whatever notation it is written in, so they are not published here. The online guzheng has a tab editor instead: write your own, and the notes travel inside the link you share rather than being uploaded.
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