Level: very easyTwinkle, Twinkle, Little StarAn 18th-century French tune (“Ah! vous dirai-je, maman”, published in 1761), the same one Mozart used for 12 piano variations.Level: very easyMary Had a Little LambA 19th-century American song: the poem is by Sarah Josepha Hale (1830) and the tune was adapted by Lowell Mason.Level: very easyFrère Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)A traditional French round, first published around 1780. Play it as a group: each person comes in two bars after the previous one.Level: easyOde to JoyThe theme from the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (1824), set to Schiller’s poem. Today it is the anthem of the European Union.Level: easyHappy BirthdayThe tune comes from “Good Morning to All”, published in 1893 by the sisters Mildred and Patty Hill in the United States.Level: easyJingle BellsWritten by the American James Lord Pierpont and published in 1857 as “One Horse Open Sleigh”. This is the chorus.Level: easyWhen the Saints Go Marching InAn African-American spiritual from the early 20th century that became a New Orleans jazz standard with Louis Armstrong’s 1938 recording.Level: intermediateMinuet in G (Bach)From the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725). It was credited to J. S. Bach for centuries; today we know it is by Christian Petzold.Level: intermediateFür EliseBeethoven’s Bagatelle in A minor, written around 1810 and only published in 1867. This is the famous theme, simplified.
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