Our Favorite Melodies

A Collection of Public Domain Melodies

Classical, Celtic, and World

Click on a title to see a score.

Each score is a printable PDF file.

Arran Boat Song

Be Thou My Vision

Brian Boru's March

Dakota Hymn

El Condor Pasa

Gavotte

Give Me Your Hand

House of the Rising Sun

Hungarian Dance No. 5

Minuet In G

Morrison's Jig

Now Unto Jehovah

O'Carolan's Air

Ode To Joy

Pachelbel's Canon in D

Peruvian Folk Song

Russian Lullaby

Sakura

Sarabande in D Minor

She Moved Through the Fair

Sheebag Sheemore

Song of Home - Korean

Spring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Tambourin

The Hurdy Gurdy

The Jasmine Flower

The Youngest Daughter

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Trumpet Song

Trumpet Voluntary

Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Our Favorite Melodies

A Collection of Public Domain Melodies

Classical, Celtic, and World

Click to access melody score PDF files.

We are Duo Harpists. We have collected these melodies over the past 35 plus years for our harp repertoire and for alto and tenor recorder, autoharp, and bowed dulcimer practice.

All of these single note melodies are in the public domain. We hope you will find some of these melodies to be inspiring and enriching.

For some of the melodies we have taken the artistic liberty to revise some parts of the melodies. We have added some intros, endings, interludes, and ornaments. For some melodies, we wanted to have a piece be a little longer and to add a little variety. For some other melodies we strove for easier playing, possibly a simpler more basic elegant melody statement, avoiding accidentals, or a smaller range of melody notes. For two melodies we have added original interludes, The House of the Rising Sun and The Jasmine Flower.

Since reading music notation does not come easily to either of us, we tried to make the notation as large as possible. Larger is easier to read.

We used Score Writer, a more economical notation program to notate these melodies. We are not musical notation professionals. It is possible that we may have made errors. And, we may not have achieved optimal presentation. We hope that the large easy to read notation will make up for imperfections.

Please email if you would like any of the melodies in a different key. We will transpose to another key and send you an attachment.

Please email if you have any comments or questions. We'd be very interested to hear if you have one or more favorites. And, are there some other melodies that you love?

twoharps@gmail.com

Paul and Brenda Neal

Two Harps

Please note: For some of the recognizable melodies, especially the classical ones, the changes or additions we have made may not be your preference. If that is the case, it is possible to find simple to complex free printable scores online.

Click on a title to see a score.

Each score is a printable PDF file.