'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Sheet Music
'Twas the Night Before Christmas sheet music solo for voice and piano, and also for early piano, with a shared-hands setting of the melody, with chord symbols.
The entire poem by Clement C. Moore is here, with a new rhythmic melody that is easy to play & sing! What a joy to be able to sing a favorite poem classic.
That arrangement above is the SOLO arrangement, for piano and voice. You can find the entire eight-page version for sale as a digital download in two places:
Sheet Music Direct, and also Sheet Music Plus.
A free version for beginners
Turn this into a duet
So far I haven't written a secondo... but a chord accompaniment for this beginner music is easily made by playing bass note, chord, chord.
For chord newbies: The bass note is the chord name. Then comes a full triad, up an octave, or maybe a little bit of the chord - a baby chord, or just the top half of a triad.
See examples of this chord pattern in the bass clef of the solo version of this song, below:
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas:
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This is a singable melody
Unlike some of the musical settings I've seen of this wonderful Christmas poem classic, my composition is easy to sing and learn. No strange rhythms, no wild notes.
The form of this setting
Because there are so many verses, all with pretty much the same meter, I knew I couldn't just repeat the same melody over and over again. Too tedious.
So what I ended up doing is using one PRIMARY melody for two verses, then a "chorus"-like alternate melody, which brings the pianist back to the main melody again.
Then two more verses of the main melody, then the chorus, but after the chorus the second time, a third melody. Sound confusing? This pattern happens like this:
A A B A A B C
A A B C
Buy the piano/vocal setting of
'Twas the Night Before Christmas:
SheetMusicPlus or SheetMusicDirect
The backup chords help the transitions seem more inevitable.
After the first part C, the song moves up from the key of C, to the key of D, in the solo version (not the beginner version - that version just repeats).
The beginner's version is five pages long
I've only got the first three pages shown here; but download the beginner PDF and take a look at the whole thing!
The beginner piano music, free:
Download beginner version of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas sheet music
Buy the piano/vocal setting of
'Twas the Night Before Christmas:
SheetMusicPlus or SheetMusicDirect
Dianna:
Your website is a light in the darkness. THANK YOU for all you do in helping to spread the love of music. It matters!
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