That Night in Bethlehem
Created | Updated Jul 30, 2006
That Night in Bethlehem is a Gaelic Christmas carol suited to the pennywhistle.
Other tunes in this series can be found listed on the Toots of the Whistle page of the Guide.
This abc-rendition is transposed for the pennywhistle, tuned to the key of D. Copy and paste the abc-code, shown below, into your own text file and then process the file using the abc-tool of your choice. Free abc utilities are available that will convert the code to a MIDI file, to Adobe PostScript, and to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) suitable for printing the sheet music. As an alternative, it is possible to read the abc-code direct and play it on your favourite instrument.
X:13439595
T:That Night in Bethlehem
T:--h2g2 article A13439595--
L:1/8
S:Irish
C:Irish
N:pennywhistle, tinwhistle, tin, penny, whistle
N:flageolet, fipple, flute, feadog
Z:Rendered 20060729 by H2G2 U107221 for the pennywhistle keyed in D.
F:Night-In-Bethlehem-H2G2-A
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:C
"^Pennywhistle in D"
E2 | A2> c2 B2 A2 | G2 A4 A2 | c2 (de) d2 B2 | G6 E2 |
A2> c2 B2 A2 | G2 A4 A2 | c2 (de) B2> A2 | A6 e2 |
g2> e2 d2 e2 | g2 a4 (ba) | g2 (ed) c2 d2 | e6 E2 |
A2> c2 B2 A2 | G2 A4 A2 | c2 (de) B2> A2 | A6 |]
