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Sing Silent Night with Shape Note Solfege - Sheet Music

The Beautiful Silent Night Carol [Videos]

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Introduction

Do you want to sing Silent Night? In this post, you’ll get the essentials: 1) three videos, 2) the full lyrics, and 3) easy-to-read shape note sheet music with a sing along song track. Keep reading The Beautiful Silent Night Carol [Videos] to learn more.

This article uses musical terms. For definitions, see the Glossary at the end of the post.

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The Beautiful Silent Night Carol: What Version of the Song Do You Want?

I’ve provided three versions of the song for your viewing pleasure:

  • The Original Version
  • The German Version
  • The Temptations Version

Video: The Original Version

Video: The German Version

Video: The Temptations Version

The Beautiful Silent Night Carol: Do You Want the Complete Lyrics?

Here are the Silent Night lyrics. They come from a carol book published in 1917.

Verse 1:

Silent night holy night

All is calm all is bright

Round Thy children Father on high

Beams the light of Thy starry sky

Sleep in heavenly peace

Sleep in heavenly peace

Verse 2:

Silent night holy night

Shepherds pray at the sight

Glories stream from heaven afar

Golden beams from the eastern star

Come the glorious morn

Come the glorious morn

Verse 3:

Silent night holy night

God on high love’s pure light

Radiant beams from Thy holy face

With the dawn of redeeming grace

Peace and heavenly love

Peace and heavenly love

The Beautiful Silent Night Carol: Do You Want Easy-to-Read Sheet Music?

The melody we’re going to be using comes from a 1916 organ arrangement.

 Never read shape notes before? This post will give you a good overview:

Also, the song uses the 6-8 time signature. For a review:

Mobile users: for best results reading the music, tilt your screen 90o to the right.

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Sing Along Song Track:

The sing along song track uses synthetic voices rather than actual voices. Research has shown that this will help with the ability to identify and produce absolute pitch information. For more information:

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The Beautiful Silent Night Carol: Final Thoughts

This post gives you three options for working with Silent Night:

  1. You can follow along with the videos.
  2. Alternatively, you can learn the Silent Night lyrics.
  3. Or you can work with the easy-to-read shape note notation.

Have fun singing!

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