Christmas Album 2020, by Richard Rice
  • Richard R.
    Posts: 776
    Here is last year's Christmas project, new settings of eight Christmas carols/hymns for mixed choir. Other than the outer two, these are texts not much heard (in my experience), but which deserve to be better known. Feel free to reproduce, but let me know if you perform any of them.
    Richard Rice
    _RRice_ChristmasAlbum2020.pdf
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    RRice_1DearMakerOfTheStarrySkies.mid
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    RRice_2FromStarryHeavnDescending.mid
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    RRice_3OBethlehemOfHolyWorth.mid
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    RRice_4BeholdASimpleTenderBabe.mid
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    RRice_5SleepHolyBabe.mid
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    RRice_6SlumberOhSlumberDearJesus.mid
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    RRice_7LetChristianHearts.mid
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    RRice_8OfTheFathersLoveBegotten.mid
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    Thanked by 8CHGiffen Andrew_Malton Brian Michael Page sdtalley3 Heath rich_enough JonLaird M. Jackson Osborn
  • Andrew_Malton
    Posts: 1,187
    Thanks for the music, it's gorgeous. I've enjoyed your rhythmic idiom from singing the Gradual settings, and here I'm hearing it with poetry, and lilting it is.

    (And now I know there's a closer metric translation of Iesous ahatonnia.)
  • Carol
    Posts: 856
    I have a question about Slumber O Slumber Dear Jesus. The third verse says "Then in a kingdom won by our endeavor..." Who does it mean when it says "our?" It cannot mean humanity and I don't think it can properly and theologically mean Jesus and Mary's endeavor, so does it mean the Trinity's endeavor?

    I am really not trying to nitpick, just understand. I do see it is Polish in origin.

    Thank you.
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