Description & Musical Analysis
Play Silent Night as a complete solo-guitar MIDI based on Daniel Widyanto’s arrangement of Franz Xaver Gruber’s 1818 hymn. This 69-second performance contains 142 notes in G major.
How to Play & Trivia
Silent Night for solo guitar
Franz Xaver Gruber composed Silent Night in 1818. This complete solo-guitar arrangement, published by Mutopia, places the familiar hymn melody and its accompaniment on one nylon-string guitar part. The MIDI lasts 1 minute and 9 seconds, with 142 notes in G major at 60 BPM.
Listen and practice
Follow the melody through the chord changes and let each phrase ring before moving into the next. The score is set in 3/4, so keep a gentle three-beat pulse while practicing the melody and accompaniment together.
Arrangement and license
This is the MIDI file distributed with Mutopia’s score “Stille Nacht,” composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and arranged for guitar by Daniel Widyanto. The file is provided unchanged. Mutopia releases the arrangement under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0). Credit Daniel Widyanto and the Mutopia Project, link to the license, and distribute shared adaptations under the same license. [View the score and MIDI source](https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=521) · [Read the CC BY-SA 2.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).
Available Instruments: Piano (Grand, Upright, Electric), Synthesizer, Organ, Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Viola Caipira, Ukulele, Bass (4 and 5 strings), Violin, Viola, Cello, Harp, Kalimba, Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Recorder, Flute, Ocarina, Saxophone, Clarinet, and Trumpet.
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