Comments on: Mystery classical music

Question: Mystery classical music

elgilito — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:09:46 -0800

What is this piece of music (MP3)? My daughter's music teacher (it's an initiation class for 5-year olds) gave us the sheet music before leaving on vacation and I'd like to find a correct recording.

I've transcribed it with MuseScore and exported it as a MP3 but my knowledge of music notation is limited and the result is certainly wrong. Apparently it's a classical piece from Austria, possibly written for a children choir and it may be called "All the children of the world" but my Google-fu did not return anything.

By: dfan

dfan — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:39:36 -0800

I definitely recognize it from German CDs of Christmas music.

I did a melody search on musipedia.org and it bears a strong resemblance to an Alsatian folk tune La balayeuse but it's not quite the same.

By: bitdamaged

bitdamaged — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:10:01 -0800

Just for giggles I put it into Shazam which said it was gwiazda betlejemska by koledy polskie.

Translated Gwiazda Betlejemska means Star of Bethlehem.

I don't have a solid read on that song, its all over the map on YouTube but it might be Little Star of Bethlehem (which would be inline with dfan's Christmas Music idea)

By: sardonyx

sardonyx — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:13:33 -0800

Ihr Kinderlein kommet
See here for lyrics: http://german.about.com/library/blmus_ihrkinderl.htm
See here for sheet music: http://german.about.com/library/blmus_ihrkinderl.htm
See here for live performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5tmB3ySpJU

By: that girl

that girl — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:14:24 -0800

Ooh ooh found it!

It's "Ihr Kinderlein, kommet." (Wikipedia)

By: that girl

that girl — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:14:43 -0800

Ohhhhh sardonyx you beat me!

By: sardonyx

sardonyx — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:18:06 -0800

Not by much. And only by enough time to actually find the links.

By: sardonyx

sardonyx — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:23:13 -0800

Oh and scratch that sheet music link. Bad copy and paste error. It should be: http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=9086

By: agentmitten

agentmitten — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:34:26 -0800

This song is also standard fare in American sacred music, where it exists as O Come Little Children. (Here's a version with hiccups which is particularly precious.)

By: oceano

oceano — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:46:15 -0800

That song was in my Suzuki cello book 1, as "Oh Come Little Children." It's also apparently in the violin version too.

By: elgilito

elgilito — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:40:00 -0800

Thanks! That's the one indeed. Amusingly I sped up the tempo by accident in MuseScore so it didn't sound like a Christmas song, unlike the versions linked above.

By: that girl

that girl — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:22:09 -0800

I had remembered it as feeling particular Suzuki-ish, oceano, and that was my first route of search.