https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgROOI-A0sc


Downton Abbey was a much loved TV series that ran for six seasons capturing the hearts of many across the world. The composer of the music, John Lunn, won two Primetime Emmys for the hauntingly beautiful score. I have arranged this wonderful piece for quartet/string orchestra, as well as for violin and piano, and cello and piano, and will probably do so again for other instruments. Make sure that you listen to the clip as well as watch the video, as the clip has been mastered since recording.

Technically, this quartet can be performed by professionals or by quite young players. There are lots of opportunities for open strings and easy positions, and experienced players can explore more complex positions with full vibrato. However, the triplets in the inner parts will need an extremely tight touch if the piece is not to sag and slow down! Perhaps younger players could try the triplets three to a bow. Cellists will need some fourth position at bars 16 and 18. If this is tricky, play bar 16 in first position and shorten the third beat of bar 16 from a previous dotted crotchet to a quaver. In bar 18 it is not possible to play this note an octave down though, as it needs to be above the viola here. First violins can change the bow whenever it runs out on the long notes eg Bars 11-13. Capriccio Quartet take a fast tempo here too, but younger players could slow it down considerably. I would love to hear this done by a string orchestra, so let me know if you perform it. I can be found very easily on Facebook

With these piano sheets, you can play ?Bohemian Rhapsody? on piano!

It?s an accurate piano arrangement of the whole piece, including all parts, full melody & instrumental solos.

I believe this is the most accurate piano arrangement of the song you will find anywhere.

It?s a ?Bohemian Rhapsody? piano version in the song?s original key, it?s playable, and it sounds fantastic!


I also created sheet music of the same piano arrangement with the song?s full lyrics - you can get it here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21155920


?Bohemian Rhapsody? was, of course, written by the one and only Freddie Mercury.

It was included on Queen?s 1975 album ?A Night at the Opera? and became one of Queen?s biggest hits. Today, it is considered by many to be the best classic rock song of all time.


There?s a good reason why the 2018 biographical film about Freddie Mercuy (played by Rami Malek) is named after this song - arguably his greatest composition.


?Bohemian Rhapsody? is famous for its diverse parts: from the a-capella-intro to rock ballad verses, from hard rock guitar solos to operatic sections.

?Bohemian Rhapsody? really is the whole package - and all parts of it can sound surprisingly great on piano, if played right!


In my experience, many arrangements of the song seem to be lacking something: They are not accurate, don?t sound powerful enough, there are important parts or even whole sections missing.

So I took my time to create a piano arrangement of the song which I feel does justice to this wonderful piece.


I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I do!



Here are the full lyrics to ?Bohemian Rhapsody?:


?Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide

No escape from reality

Open your eyes

Look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy

Because I'm easy come, easy go

A little high, little low

Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man

Put a gun against his head

Pulled my trigger, now he's dead

Mama, life had just begun

But now I've gone and thrown it all away

Mama, oh oh

Didn't mean to make you cry

If I'm not back again this time tomorrow

Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come

Sends shivers down my spine

Body's aching all the time

Goodbye everybody I've got to go

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

Mama, oh oh (anyway the wind blows)

I don't want to die

Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man

Scaramouch, Scaramouch will you do the Fandango

Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me

Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, figaro, magnifico

I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me

He's just a poor boy from a poor family

Spare him his life from this monstrosity

Easy come easy go will you let me go

Bismillah, no we will not let you go, let him go

Bismillah, we will not let you go, let him go

Bismillah, we will not let you go, let me go

(Will not let you go) let me go (never, never let you go) let me go (never let me go)

Oh oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me for me for me

So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye

So you think you can love me and leave me to die

Oh baby can't do this to me baby

Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here

Oh oh oh yeah, oh oh yeah

Nothing really matters

Anyone can see

Nothing really matters

Nothing really matters to me

Anyway the wind blows?

Song List: I'll Fly Away (Albert E Brumley) Because He Lives (Wm & Gloria Gaither) To Be Used of God (Audrey Mieir) El-Shaddai (J Thompson/M Card) Let's Just Praise the Lord (William Gaither) Thou Art Worthy (Pauline Mills) I'll Tell the World That I'm A Christian (Bock) Healer of Broken Hearts (Bock) He Is with Me (Bock) He Touched Me (Bock) I Believe in A Hill Called Mt. Calvary (Bock) Over the Sunset Mountains (Bock) Plenty of Room in the Family (Bock) How Great Thou Art (Stuart K Hine) In This Very Room (Ron and Carol Harris) Jesus Loves Me (Bradbury/Debussy) Happiness Nearer, My God, to Thee (S. Adams) What A Friend We Have in Jesus (C Converse) This Is My Country (Raye/Jacobs) Love Lifted Me (J. Rowe/H. Smith) Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us (W. Bradbury) I've Got Peace Like A River Greater Is He That Is in Me (Lanny Wolfe) Day by Day (C Berg/O Ahnfelt) I Am A Promise (Wm. & Gloria Gaither) Joy Comes in the Morning (Wm. & Gloria Gaither) I Cannot Fail the Lord (Doris Akers) He's Everything to Me (R Carmichael) When He Shall Come (A J Pearce) Sweet, Sweet Spirit (Doris Akers) Oh, I Never Shall Forget the Day (R Carmichael) Sweeter As the Years Go by (Mrs. C H Morris) Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Don Wyrtzen) My Heart Is Filled with Jesus' Love (D Akers) Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul (John Peterson) Love At Home (Wm Driggs, Jr.) Thank God for the Promise of Spring (Wm Gaither) God Leads His Dear Children Along (G Young) Even So, Lord Jesus, Come (Wm. Gaither) Jesus Is Coming Again (J Peterson) He'll Never Let You Fall (R Carmichael) Go Tell It On the Mountain Amen Precious Memories LOVE OF GOD, THE (FREDERICK H LEHMAN) BLOOD WILL NEVER LOSE ITS POWER, THE (A. CROUCH) CHURCH TRIUMPHANT, THE (WM GAITHER) UNVEILED CHRIST, THE (N B HERRELL) MIRACLE OF GRACE, THE (R CARMICHAEL)