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Brahms's Lullaby: bass part

The bass part of Brahms's Lullaby in Eb, from Ab2 to Eb3. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings low "oo"s from Brahms's piano part on just three notes, B-flat, E-flat and A-flat, almost always the chord's root, and rests on each line's pickup.

Range
Ab2 to Eb3
Key
Eb
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  1. 01 · Your part

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  2. 02 · With the others

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  3. 03 · Sing it

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About Brahms's Lullaby

Words: Arthur Westbrook (1901), after Natalia Macfarren's English (about 1874), from the German: verse 1 the folk verse in Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1808), verse 2 Georg Scherer's (1849)

Tune: Johannes Brahms, Op. 49 No. 4 (1868)

Brahms's Lullaby is the Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4, that Johannes Brahms published in 1868, a gift for his friend Bertha Faber on the birth of her second son. Its first known public performance was in Vienna, sung by Luise Dustmann with Clara Schumann at the piano. Our arrangement is read from the first edition (Simrock, Berlin, 1868), in Brahms's key of E-flat, with Arthur Westbrook's English, which keeps Natalia Macfarren's opening "Lullaby and good night", as a Ditson book printed it in 1903. This is both verses for 2 to 4 singers, slow and gentle: the tune on top, the alto in thirds and sixths below, and the tenor and bass on soft "oo" chords from Brahms's piano part.

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