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Greensleeves: alto part

The alto part of Greensleeves in F#m, from Ab3 to F#4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words beneath the tune, mostly on C-sharp and A, up to F-sharp on "Alas! my" and "I have".

Range
Ab3 to F#4
Key
F#m
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How to learn the alto part

  1. 01 · Your part

    Hear your part on its own until the tune of it is in your ear.

  2. 02 · With the others

    Hear it with the others, so you know where it sits in the chord.

  3. 03 · Sing it

    Sing it with the others under you and watch each note light up as you land it. The mic listens only while it plays, and nothing is recorded.

About Greensleeves

Words: traditional (English, 16th century), as printed in William Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time (1855 to 1859)

Tune: traditional (English, 16th century)

Greensleeves is an English tune of the 1500s, sung here in its own old words, "Alas, my love, you do me wrong". Shakespeare names it twice in The Merry Wives of Windsor, where Falstaff cries, "Let the sky rain potatoes, let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves." People were singing Christmas-season words to it by the 1600s; the best known today, "What Child Is This?", are by William Chatterton Dix, in print by 1867. Our arrangement is read from William Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time of the 1850s, on the harmony G. A. Macfarren wrote for it, a whole tone higher. This is the first verse and the refrain for 2 to 4 singers, gentle and lilting.

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