- Rangefifth
- Notes49, 5 different
- ScaleMajor, no accidentals
- Length hereabout 32 s
About Lightly Row
Lightly Row is the English name for the German children’s song “Hänschen klein”, whose words were written by the Dresden teacher Franz Wiedemann around 1860 to a folk melody already in circulation. The tune travelled further than the words did: it is sung with different texts across Europe, Japan and the Americas.
Most instrumentalists meet it in the first volume of the Suzuki method, where it follows the Twinkle variations. It moves almost entirely by step and by the same two small skips, which is what makes it a good second tune.
Play Lightly Row on your instrument
26 of the 27 playable instruments here have every note it needs. 26 play it where the library writes it; the rest move it to another key or octave, and each page says which. Every page has the instrument itself, with the song loaded, above the notes.
- Kalimba tabs
- Piano letter notes
- Mbira tabs
- Handpan tabs
- Oud notes
- Violin notes
- Cello notes
- Erhu notes
- Dulcimer tab
- Xylophone letter notes
- Marimba letter notes
- Glockenspiel letter notes
- Steel Drum letter notes
- Ocarina notes
- Harmonica tabs
- Trumpet notes
- Clarinet notes
- Saxophone notes
- Flute notes
- Recorder notes
- Tuba notes
- Euphonium notes
- Trombone notes
- Accordion letter notes
- Harp letter notes
- Lyre tabs
Instruments that cannot play it
- Guzheng — it would need G4, which it does not have in any size or key here.
Lightly Row letter notes
Written in C major, from C4 to G4, with each note’s number in the scale under it — the form that transfers to any instrument. A dash holds a note another beat, an underline is half a beat, and each line is one phrase.
Lightly Row — letter notes · tonalics.com
Where these notes come from
German folk song “Hänschen klein”, 19th century; the English “Lightly Row” uses the same melody. Public domain.
No lyrics are printed on this page or any other here: these pages are about a melody and how to play it.