Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 30 minutes ago

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Warning: performing this piece could make you cry :) "Rorate Caeli" is plainchant (sometimes known as "Gregorian chant") normally sung at the start of the Advent (i.e. this time of the year). Plainchant normally consists of a single line of music that is sung by multiple people. It has a very free, naturally flowing timing, and typically has no harmony associated to it. Here I've taken famous plainchant and added some harmony to it. I know tastes vary, but for me this really makes the music come alive. I've kept everything rather sparse and stripped all superfluous notes because I find it fits this music. The notes in this piece are easy to play, but playing the right notes is only the beginning of making music. In this piece, you will have to awake your inner musician to also make it sound musically. There's no meaningless virtuosity to hide behind. Also special: no barlines are present and the rhythms are not meant to be executed accurately as notated. Plainchant has to flow naturally and organically, as if the music is sung. Scores: github.com/shimpe/easy_piano_scores Note: two chords in the left hand in the second system require a pretty wide hand span: here I gave some priority to the music over the "easiness". You can "roll" the notes if you have trouble reaching this size of interval. You can compare my version to a score (in old notation!) and a recording of Rorate Caeli here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorate_caeli . The recording is half a tone lower than my version. I transposed half a tone up to not overcomplicate the key signature...

Latin lyrics:
Rorate caeli desuper et nubes pluant justum
Aperiatur terra et germinet salvatorem

English translation:
Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just
Let the earth be opened and send forth a Saviour.

"Easy Piano" consists of a series of pieces for which you don't need to be a very advanced player. Despite being called "easy" the pieces are not trivial, and will most likely take some practice. In the "Easy Piano" playlist, the pieces are ordered from easy to more difficult (but even the hardest piece in this series remains accessible for players that are yet to reach intermediate level of playing). Some pieces are only easy if you first take the time to work out a good fingering (ask your teacher to help you :) )