- Rangeoctave
- Notes61, 8 different
- ScaleMajor, no accidentals
- Time4/4
- Length hereabout 47 s
- Source editionA♭ major
About O Come, All Ye Faithful
The Latin hymn “Adeste Fideles” survives in manuscripts copied by John Francis Wade, an English Catholic music copyist working in France, from about 1743; he is usually credited with the tune as well as the copying. The English text sung today dates from 1841.
It moves in long, even notes and spans exactly an octave, from the fifth below the tonic to the fifth above it.
Play O Come, All Ye Faithful on your instrument
24 of the 27 playable instruments here have every note it needs. 24 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
- Oud notes
- Violin notes
- Cello notes
- Erhu notes
- Dulcimer tab
- Xylophone letter notes
- Marimba letter notes
- Glockenspiel letter notes
- Steel Drum letter 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 C♯5, G5, which it does not have in any size or key here.
- Handpan — it would need G3, B3, which it does not have in any size or key here.
- Ocarina — it would need G5, which it does not have in any size or key here.
O Come, All Ye Faithful letter notes
Written in C major, from G4 to G5, 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.
O Come, All Ye Faithful — letter notes · tonalics.com
Where these notes come from
“Adeste Fideles”, attributed to John Francis Wade, c. 1743. Public domain.
The melody was not written down from memory. It is derived from a published transcription and compared, note for note, with independent ones:
- Followed: Douglas D. Anderson, The Hymns and Carols of Christmas (sequence released to the public domain)
- Checked against: Paul Hardy’s Xmas Tunebook, 2019 (2024) — 1 of 62 notes differ, as variants of a traditional tune do