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The First Noel: tenor part

The tenor part of The First Noel in D, from F#3 to E4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words in the middle of the chord, most often on A, then D, up to its top E only on "in" in "in fields as they lay" and "that" in verse 1 and "both" in verse 2, and down to its low F-sharp on "The First", the start of "Nowell" and "fields where" in verse 1, "They lookèd" and "to the" in verse 2, and the end of the first "Nowell" and the start of the second in each chorus.

Range
F#3 to E4
Key
D
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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 The First Noel

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

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

The First Noel is a traditional English carol of the shepherds, the star and the wise men. The earliest known printing of its words is in the second edition of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols, in 1823, and of its tune in William Sandys's Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, in 1833. John Stainer set it in four parts for Christmas Carols New and Old, the carol book he edited with H. R. Bramley, whose first series came out in 1867, and his version fixed the tune's familiar form. Our arrangement is read from his four parts in a printing of the 1870s, in D as printed, with the lower parts revoiced for beginners. This is verses 1 and 2 for 2 to 4 singers, the soprano on the tune, each verse followed by the chorus, "Nowell, Nowell", spelled as the book spells it.

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