Product Description
This is the full score - piano accompaniment, drum and SATB choir. A choir score is available separately
This carol is designed to
be very easy to learn and perform. It
needs to be accompanied by piano (simple part) and drum (no snare). A bodhran or cajon would work just as well.
There is one
minor-key tune for both the men and ladies to learn. (This works as a 4-part round later in the
carol)
·
The
men start, accompanied just by the piano ostinato. The drum doesnt enter until bar 7, when the
men finish their drums drumming
·
While
the ladies sing verse 2, the men sing Drum, drum in consecutive 5ths. NB, the melody is slightly different at the
end of the ladies verse, since the words poor and lowly stable need the
melody to come down rather than go up
·
Then
the ladies sing the Drum, drum 5ths whilst the men sing verse 3
·
Everyone
sings verse 4 in unison and joyously
·
Everyone
then sings verse 4 twice in a round basses, altos, tenors then sopranos
·
Everyone
repeats the last line of verse 4 The child weve waited for is born together
(the piano and drum cut out so that the voices are unaccompanied in bar 35 and
then resume for bar 36)
·
O
hear the angels singing (unaccompanied) then a loud chord and drum on beat 3
of the last bar
Enjoy!
A high-definition video of
the carol is available on YouTube type in Carol of the Wise Men CMM Choir
and select the picture with the choir ladies in white blouses and red scarves
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