A few years ago I put up Christmas music as done by regular folk. I don't know what I'm going to do this year or when I'll start, but this seems a fun start, even if Advent is over two weeks away. No one much remembers Steeleye Span anymore but a few eccentric Boomers and assorted fanatics, but they brought this song out from obscurity and it has been covered by many since. Piae Cantiones was first published in 16th C Finland, though "Gaudete" may be older.
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If you want to hear some fun Christmas music, look into Parang, which is idiomatic music written in Spanish but originating in the island of Trinidad, in the West Indies.
A choir on the stairs! I love it!
Oh, and the fact that they're so hip-looking but singing these old motets tickles me pink.
The bell choir I'm in is working up an arrangement of this. Quite a coincidence.
The piece has something of a cult following. Including me.
I hadn't thought of the acoustics of a stairwell before. But then I didn't think about the acoustics of a cave, or of the gullies in Turkey Run, or ...
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