Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
by Traditional
Free sheet music library / Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
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- Key
- C major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 100
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 12
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 4 of 10
- Genre
- Nursery songs
- Origin
- France
- Composer
- Traditional
About this piece
A French folk tune, published in Paris in 1761 as "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman", that Mozart wrote twelve variations on. The English words come from a poem of 1806. It only uses five notes plus a leap of a fifth.
Why it is free to use
A traditional tune with no known author, in print since about 1761. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.
About this score
This score of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 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.