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God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen: bass part

The bass part of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen in Em, from G2 to A3. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the bass line, mostly on E and B, the minor key's home note and the note that leads back to it.

Range
G2 to A3
Key
Em
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  3. 03 · Sing it

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About God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Words: Traditional English (as printed by Bramley and Stainer, 1867)

Tune: Traditional English (as printed by Bramley and Stainer, 1867)

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen is a traditional English carol: nobody knows who first wrote its words or its tune. It is carol number 1 in Christmas Carols New and Old, edited by H. R. Bramley and John Stainer, whose first series came out in 1867; our arrangement is read from Stainer's four parts in a printing of the 1870s, in E minor as printed, with the words as the book gives them, "God rest you, merry gentlemen". This is the first verse and its refrain for 2 to 4 singers: on "O tidings of comfort and joy" the harmony brightens into G major before the last "joy" comes home to E minor.

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