Amazing Grace
by Traditional
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- Key
- G major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 80
- Time
- 3/4
- Bars
- 8
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 4 of 10
- Genre
- Hymns
- Origin
- United States
- Composer
- Traditional
About this piece
A hymn whose words were written by the English clergyman John Newton in 1772. The tune "New Britain" first appeared in print in the United States in 1835. The melody uses a five-note scale.
The words are by John Newton (1779); the tune, called "New Britain", is traditional. Here: the first two lines.
Why it is free to use
A traditional tune with no known author, in print since about 1835. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.
About this score
This score of Amazing Grace is a short excerpt (the opening, or the first verse of the song), not the whole piece. It was written by SampLab Pro from the public-domain music. It is not copied from any printed edition, MIDI file or recording. We place our score in the public domain (CC0 1.0): anyone may copy, change, share and use it, including commercially, without asking. The left hand is our own simple accompaniment, made from the chords of the tune.