Songbook for the Melody Star Harmonica - 32 Christmas Songs: Melody Star Songbooks, #3

By Reynhard Boegl and Bettina Schipp

Songbook with 32 well-known and popular Christmas songs for the Hohner Melody Star Harmonica.
The melodies were simply prepared with the numbers/symbols that can be found on the instruments. The vocal melody indicates the rhythm of the notes to be played.
Lyrics in the original language; with chords, fingerings for the guitar and suggestions  for strumming.
The MP3 sounds (melody and band as well as band only) are available online (web address in the book) in a player with adjustable playback speed.

 

No knowledge of music notes is necessary - playing by numbers / symbols - suitable for beginners!

• Language: English
• Publisher: songbooks.info
• Release date: Sep 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393644392

Reynhard Boegl

Reynhard Boegl - since 1984 live and studio musician (harmonica, guitar, vocals), music teacher, sound engineer, graphic artist and lyricist, song and textbook author. Lives and works in Linz / Austria and has published almost 100 song- and textbooks for various instruments.

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Table of content

Melody Star Harmonica

The tablature

Sounds

A, a, a, der Winter, der ist da!

Alle Jahre wieder

Am Weihnachtsbaum die Lichter brennen

Angels we have heard on high

Away in a manger

Christmas is coming

Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

Es wird scho glei dumpa

Fröhliche Weihnacht überall!

Go, tell it on the Mountain

God rest ye merry, gentlemen

Hark! The Herlad Angels sing

I Saw Three Ships

Ihr Kinderlein kommet

Jingle Bells

Josef, lieber Josef mein

Joy to the world

Kommet ihr Hirten

Lasst uns froh und munter sein

Leise rieselt der Schnee

Maria durch ein` Dornwald ging

Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann

Morgen, Kinder, wirds was geben!

O come, all ye faithful

O du fröhliche

O Tannenbaum

Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen

Stille Nacht

Süßer die Glocken nie klingen

The first Noel

Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her

We wish you a merry Christmas

Chords

Rhythm pattern

Misc

Imprint

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Melody Star Harmonica

The Melody Star is a very popular single-note harmonica in solo tuning. The large, widely spaced channels / channels are provided with protruding channel openings and thus make it easier to hit the individual notes.

The range is two full octaves in the key of C major. The so-called solo tuning is mainly used with chromatic instruments. This songbook can therefore also be used as preparation for playing or by players of the chromatic harmonica.

A special feature of this solo tuning is the double occurrence of the root C in cell 4 and 5, each as a blaston. When the songs were edited, this identical tone was used in such a way that it matches the respective neighboring tones or the course of the melody.

The graphic above shows the Melody Star harmonica with the numbers / symbols used in the book. The numbers can also be found on the instrument, the underscore means draw tone.

The "Melody