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Post by Zi on Dec 4, 2023 13:06:39 GMT
Forget the CD player, turntable, and what have you... any favourite sheet music?
I've finally picked up the recorder for longer than 5 minutes and my new favourite as of today is: 101 Christmas melodies for Descant Recorder. It's arranged by Harry Dexter and having examined the cover I found a 10/6 so I wasn't sure if that was 10s 6d or some kind of code... However, publication date is 1967. I was 14! I'd have loved it then as it's complete with lyrics. Love it now as it's complete with lyrics. Sometimes there are alternative tunes... as for example O Little Town of Bethlehem. We used to sing a different tune to that which I've never come across since... I thought maybe we were given the harmony but no, that isn't the explanation either. I wonder if I'll ever find out...
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lafa
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Post by lafa on Dec 4, 2023 14:39:54 GMT
I have two tunes to it. One by an American organist - a a a gis a c' bflat d, or the one I knew better c, f f f g a g a bflat c' Not very clear I guess, but worth trying. |
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Post by keff on Dec 4, 2023 15:09:28 GMT
"Your Favourite Carols arranged for piano with complete words" by Stuart Wade. Price 2/6 but date of publication or of purchase unknown. (The date must be before 1968/69 because the publisher's address predates postcodes.) This book contains twenty three relatively easy to play carols and was given to me by a fellow resident of a hostel where I lived during the early 1970s.
A second book that I use is "Children's Christmas Day Songbook" bought for £3.95 in 1987, when our children were five and three years of age.
Wish I had kept in touch with the chap who gave me the first book.
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Post by Zi on Dec 5, 2023 13:31:17 GMT
lafa - thank you! My tune is different from both of those. I think we sang it at primary school (not that means anything except it was a long time ago). I must try to play it but I'm not sure I remember all of it now, I'm a bit hazy after the first few bars... but it goes: b a b g b a g b f... keff - 2/6... a half crown... that was a different life! Especially the pre-dates postcodes!
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Post by keff on Dec 5, 2023 15:50:42 GMT
There is a tune called Bethlehem written by J.Barnby 1838-96.
b d e fsharp g a(dotted) b(half beat) a c(above middle c)
e f(sharp) g a d a(below middle c) b(below middle c)
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Post by Zi on Dec 5, 2023 17:16:09 GMT
It's very pretty that one but it isn't the tune. I didn't realise how many people had a 'go' at it... Barnby has an interesting history as well. Organist and choirmaster at 12 years old - I can't play the recorder at 70! Sigh...  |
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Post by keff on Dec 5, 2023 18:32:29 GMT
lafa - thank you! My tune is different from both of those. I think we sang it at primary school (not that means anything except it was a long time ago). I must try to play it but I'm not sure I remember all of it now, I'm a bit hazy after the first few bars... but it goes: b a b g b a g b f... keff - 2/6... a half crown... that was a different life! Especially the pre-dates postcodes! Zi, your tune is called 'Christmas Carol' and written by H. Walford Davies 1869-1941. It appears in The School Hymn Book of the Methodist Church first published in 1950. |
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Post by Zi on Dec 5, 2023 18:45:53 GMT
Thank you! That is indeed the tune. And I've been able to find a MuseScore version here - I don't remember the twiddle bit at the end at all but I think this was at the primary school, I vaguely remember the infants teacher playing it on piano... If anyone else is interested... Christmas CarolIt was written a few years before I was born but I bet the teacher thought she was being extremely modern playing that!  |
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