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Your favorite traditional Christmas Hymn or Christmas Carol? Mine is "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" from 1739.
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Sorry but there's nothing traditional about me whatsoever. "Silent Night" (the 1980 version) by The Temptations is about as traditional as I get.
I'm surprised you haven't gotten any other responses though. I know there are some Shitney fans on this site. What's up, they don't like her horrible version of "Do You Hear What I Hear"? . . . [Edited 12/23/08 12:34pm] Andy is a four letter word. | |
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vainandy said: I'm surprised you haven't gotten any other responses though. I know there are some Shitney fans on this site. What's up, they don't like her horrible version of "Do You Hear What I Hear"?
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I miss the old Mariah that could actually sing. I love the message and lyrics of this carol. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is a Christmas hymn or carol written by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley. It first appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739. The original opening couplet was "Hark! how all the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings". The version known today is the result of alterations by various hands, most notably George Whitefield, Wesley's co-worker, who changed the opening couplet to the familiar one we know today. One of the tunes originally used for the carol was also used as a tune for Amazing Grace.[citation needed] Wesley himself, however, envisaged his lyrics sung to the same tune as his Easter hymn, Christ the Lord is Risen Today.[citation needed] The tune that is now almost always used for this carol is based on a chorus composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1840, part of his cantata Festgesang an die Künstler ("Festival Song") to commemorate the printer Johann Gutenberg and the invention of his printing press. The cantata was first presented at the great festival held at Leipzig. Festgesang's second chorus, "Vaterland, in deinem Gauen", was adapted in 1855 by William Hayman Cummings. Mendelssohn said of the song that it could be used with many different choruses but that it should not be used for sacred music. This may be because the melodic and harmonic structure of the tune are similar to the Gavotte of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 4; indeed Mendelssohn (who has always been linked with the music of Bach) may simply have adapted Bach's music for his chorus, as was proposed by Nigel Poole with his (transposed) arrangement of the Gavotte as Bach's Christmas Carol[1]. VERSE 1: Hark! the herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King! Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled." Joyful, all ye nations, rise, Join the triumph of the skies; With th' angelic host proclaim, "Christ is born in Bethlehem." Hark! the herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King! (The following verse is NOT sung on the Boney M Version) VERSE 2: Christ, by highest heav'n adored: Christ, the everlasting Lord; Late in time behold him come, Offspring of the favored one. Veil'd in flesh, the Godhead see; Hail, th'incarnate Deity: Pleased, as man, with men to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel! Hark! the herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King! VERSE 3: Hail! the heav'n-born Prince of peace! Hail! the Son of Righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, Risen with healing in his wings Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die: Born to raise the sone of earth, Born to give them second birth. Hark! the herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King! [Edited 12/23/08 13:31pm] | |
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"Stille Nacht" it's called in it's original language, and english men probably know it as Silent Night.
Such a beautiful, gentle melody from the 19ths century. It was written in Austria I believe... In fact it looses all his charm in English. | |
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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
and What Child Is This? [Edited 12/23/08 17:33pm] | |
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Carol of the Bells Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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graecophilos said: "Stille Nacht" it's called in it's original language, and english men probably know it as Silent Night.
Such a beautiful, gentle melody from the 19ths century. It was written in Austria I believe... In fact it looses all his charm in English. Mahalia Jackson... ...Silent Night or Stille Nacht Still sounds mighty charming from her. tA Tribal Disorder http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Here's mine. I've always loved this song, but this version blows me away. Vanessa Williams is an artist that does not get her due all of the time...
[Edited 12/23/08 16:26pm] [Edited 12/23/08 16:26pm] "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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JackieBlue said: Carol of the Bells
Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (from Nutcracker Suite) | |
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Ho, give me my money, by rapper Santa Gangsta. lol All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Loreena Mckennitt doing her Abdelli mix God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (or God rest you merry, gentlemen) is a traditional Christmas carol. The melody is in a minor key and is in common time or cut time. The composer is unknown; it is often attributed as English traditional. Like so many early Christmas songs, this carol was written as a direct reaction to the music of the fifteenth century church," writes Ace Collins, in Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas. It was the most popular of the early carols, sung for centuries before being published in Britain in 1833, when it appeared in Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, a collection of seasonal carols gathered by William B. Sandys, though its incipit was in William Hone's "List of Christmas carols now annually printed" in Ancient Mysteries Described, 1823. The author is unknown. It is referred to in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, 1843: "...at the first sound of "God bless you merry, gentlemen! May nothing you dismay!"Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost." This carol also features in the second movement of the Carol Symphony by Victor Hely-Hutchinson God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from Satan's powers When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy; O tidings of comfort and joy! "Fear not," then said the angel "Let nothing you affright This day is born a saviour Of a pure virgin bright To free all those who trust in him From Satan's pow'rs and might" The shepherds at those tidings Rejoiced much in mind, And left their flocks a-feeding In tempest, storm and wind And went to Bethlehem straightaway This blessed babe to find But when to Bethlehem they came Whereat this infant lay They found him in a manger Where oxen feed on hay His mother Mary kneeling Unto the Lord did pray Now to the Lord sing praises All you within this place And with true love and brotherhood Each other now embrace The holy tide of Christmas All others doth deface To Promugulate Universal Joy and Expiate Stigmatic Guilt
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vainandy said: Sorry but there's nothing traditional about me whatsoever. "Silent Night" (the 1980 version) by The Temptations is about as traditional as I get.
I'm surprised you haven't gotten any other responses though. I know there are some Shitney fans on this site. What's up, they don't like her horrible version of "Do You Hear What I Hear"? . . . [Edited 12/23/08 12:34pm] i am with you on that. xmas songs suk and are so cheesy! | |
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dancerella said: vainandy said: Sorry but there's nothing traditional about me whatsoever. "Silent Night" (the 1980 version) by The Temptations is about as traditional as I get.
I'm surprised you haven't gotten any other responses though. I know there are some Shitney fans on this site. What's up, they don't like her horrible version of "Do You Hear What I Hear"? . . . [Edited 12/23/08 12:34pm] i am with you on that. xmas songs suk and are so cheesy! That "Christmas Song" and "Do You Hear What I Hear" do be getting on my damn nerves. "This Christmas" and the Tempts' "Silent Night" are about as far as I go too, lol. To be honest I never liked Christmas carols or hymns, lol. I did when I was a kid tho. Then again after Dec. 25, I stopped wanting to hear it! | |
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R.Kelly- (I'm Dreaming Of) A Yellow Christmas
Method Man-Jingle Deez Nuts [Edited 12/23/08 22:43pm] "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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bboy87 said: R.Kelly- (I'm Dreaming Of) A Yellow Christmas
Method Man-Jingle Deez Nuts [Edited 12/23/08 22:43pm] | |
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"River" by Joni Mitchell I know it's not exactly traditional but... | |
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I love
"Holy Night" by Mariah Carey. It's just very royal and rich. A bit in your face, but I guess that's the idea. It gives me chills every time. And the high note is just perfect. And I've always liked "Silent Night" But I also like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Hark!" Polish carols: "Dzisiaj w Betlejem" and my favorite "Lulaj ze Jezuniu" http://www.youtube.com/wa...UCPTj39X-U I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the dirt. | |
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The Little Drummer Boy because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." | |
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