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About this tune

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing joins Charles Wesley's 1739 words to a melody from Felix Mendelssohn's 1840 Festgesang, which the English organist William H. Cummings fitted to the hymn in 1855. In G major the tune runs from low D to high E, with a bright, march-like rhythm that suits the whistle well. Watch for the repeated high Ds in the middle and the run of high Es in the refrain, and for its nine C naturals: get that cross-fingering comfortable before you play it at full speed.

Whistle

D, the standard tin whistle

Range

D to high E

Length

76 notes

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

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This carol and 12 more as one printable PDF

Every carol on the site, tabbed for the D whistle and printed one to a page, easiest first, with a page of the fingerings they use. Free when you join the weekly email.

Tip for this tune

In G major the Cs are C naturals, which a D whistle plays by cross-fingering (OXX OOO) or half-holing, and how cleanly that C sounds varies from whistle to whistle.

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About this tune

Whistle: D, the standard tin whistle
Range: D to high E
Length: 76 notes

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