Free choral music

Adeste fideles

words John Francis Wade · arr. Samuel Webbe

Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.

Voicing
SATB
Key
G major
Time
4/4
Tempo
quarter note = 108
Length
65 bars
Verses
3

The parts

The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.

  1. Soprano part

    Range

    Lowest D4Highest D5

    Practise in the app soprano part
  2. Alto part

    Range

    Lowest D4Highest A4

  3. Tenor part

    Range

    Lowest F♯3Highest E4

  4. Bass part

    Range

    Lowest G2Highest B3

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With a free account, the app plays the parts sung.

The words

  1. Verse 1

    Adeste fi deles, laeti tri um phan- tes; venite, veni- te in Be- thlehem: Natum vi dete Regem an ge lorum: Na tum vi dete Regem an ge lorum: nite adoremus, venite adoremus, venite adoremus Do- minum. Cantet nunc io! chorus angelorum: cantet nunc au- la coe le- stium, Glo- ria in ex celsis Deo! Glo- ria in ex celsis Deo! nite adoremus, venite adoremus, venite adoremus Do- minum.

  2. Verse 2

    venite adoremus, venite adoremus, venite adore- mus Do- minum. ve venite adoremus, venite adoremus, venite adore- mus Do- minum. ve

  3. Verse 3

    De um de De o, lumen de lumi ne, ge stant pu el- la vi- sce ra: Deum ve rum, ge nitum, non fa ctum: De- um ve rum, ge nitum, non fa ctum: Er go qui na tus di e hodier na, Je su ti- bi sit glo- ri a: Patris aeter ni verbum ca ro fac tum! Patris aeter ni verbum ca ro fa ctum!

Free to sing: Samuel Webbe died in 1816 and John Francis Wade died in 1786.

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