Deck the Hall - Lead Sheet
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About the Music
- Composer: Old Welsh Air (Nos Galan)
- Title(s): Deck the Hall
- Lyrics: anonymous
- Fake Book: Christmas Fake Book
Notes
Sources
- Hymns and Carols of Christmas
- Jones, Edward. Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards. London, 1794. 159.
Additional Information
- The source material for this differs slightly from the modern version. The final six bars form a lopsided call and response phrase with the lyric "don we now our gay apparel, Troll the ancient Christmas carol" answered by the the two-bar "fa la la" section. This is a deviation from the rest of the tune where four bar phrases are divided into a two-bar call and a two-bar response. Nos Galan and most modern versions of this song include these measures (or variations thereof), so I have included them here.
- Modern versions of this tune raise the fourth degree of the scale by a half step in the 11th bar. Nos Galan and early versions of Deck the Hall all have the natural fourth degree.