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“My Favorite Things” is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music.
In the original Broadway production, the song was introduced by Mary Martin playing Maria and Patricia Neway playing Mother Abbess. Julie Andrews first performed the song in a 1961 Christmas special for The Garry Moore Show, recording it again when she starred as Maria in the 1965 film adaptation of the musical.
Many of the favorite things evoke winter time imagery including warm mittens, packages, sleigh bells, snowflakes, and silver white winters. The song’s cozy lyrics inspired its adoption as a staple of the holiday season, significantly bolstered by the movie’s popularity.
This version for solo guitar is in Em. Refer to the tab/chord/notation/lyrics sheet at https://www.paulelwood.com/my-favorite-things The first part of the lesson talks about Em as the “relative minor” key of G so if you want to skip directly to the song lesson, that starts at about 2:38. The mp3 on the web page is the midi output from musescore of the notation so that may be helpful for you too.
The movie version of the song was ranked number 64 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs, a 2004 survey of top tunes in American cinema.
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” Jane Swan
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