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It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
In my annual exercise in getting our Liturginazi away from the Amy Grant Tripe and maudlin claptrap of the Big Church Music Sausage Mill in Chicago, I am always looking for new arrangements of a few commonly recognizable traditonal Irish pieces that a. might have a nice recording, or b. better yet published spots, or c. even better yet charted vocals/ harmonies.
The one I have been wanting to do is Wexford Carol. For as often recorded, there does not seem to be anything really expceptional for it with spots. Some good recordings, but more bad for such a pretty song.
Also any other ideas that a bunch of singers can do with some nice instrumentation would also be helpful.
Sé mo laoch mo Ghile Mear
'Sé mo Chaesar, Ghile Mear,
Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin
Ó chuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear.
Seal da rabhas im' mhaighdean shéimh,
'S anois im' bhaintreach chaite thréith,
Mo chéile ag treabhadh na dtonn go tréan
De bharr na gcnoc is imigéin.
Curfa
Bímse buan ar buairt gach ló,
Ag caoi go cruaidh 's ag tuar na ndeór
Mar scaoileadh uaim an buachaill beó
'S ná ríomhtar tuairisc uaidh, mo bhrón.
Curfa
Ní labhrann cuach go suairc ar nóin
Is níl guth gadhair i gcoillte cnó,
Ná maidin shamhraidh i gcleanntaibh ceoigh
Ó d'imthigh sé uaim an buachaill beó.
Curfa
Ghile Mear 'sa seal faoi chumha,
'S Eire go léir faoi chlócaibh dubha;
Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin
Ó cuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear.
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Already? I have this thing in my house, no Christmas until Thanksgiving is over. When the turkey is done, the decorations go up. No sense rushing things, all in good time.
Fair play to you though zippy, good man, thinking ahead.
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Mary Black, Dolores Keane & Dé Danann - Hard Times Come Again No More. Written and composed by Stephen Foster in 1855 (Siar an Bóthar - 1985 National Stadium)
As down the glen one Easter morn
To a city fair rode I,
Their armed lines of marching men
In squadrons passed me by.
No pipe did hum, no battle drum
Did sound its loud tattoo
But the Angelus' bells o'er the Liffey swells
Rang out in the foggy dew.
Right proudly high in Dublin town
Hung they out a flag of war.
'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky
Than at Suvla or Sud el Bar.
And from the plains of Royal Meath
Strong men came hurrying through;
While Brittania's Huns with their long-range guns
Sailed in through the foggy dew.
The bravest fell, and the requiem bell
Rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Easter-tide
In the springing of the year.
While the world did gaze with deep amaze
At those fearless men but few
Who bore the fight that freedom's light
Might shine through the foggy dew.
And back through the glen I rode again
And my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men
Whom I never shall see more
But to and fro
In my dreams I go
And I kneel and pray for you
For slavery fled
Oh, glorious dead
When you fell in the foggy dew
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Composed by a Priest from the North Fr O Neil and first performed in a church in North Belfast in the Whitehouse area by one of the Mc Laughlin sisters, cousin and of Edward Daly. Or so the story goes
Ta bean in Eirinn a phronnfadh sead damh is mo shaith le n-o
'S ta beann in Erinn is sa binne leithe mo rafla ceoil no seinm thead
Ata bean in Eirinn is niorbh fhearr le beo
Mise ag leimnigh no leagtha ! gcre is mo tharr faoi fhod
Ta bean in Eirinn a bheadh ag ead, liom mur bhfaighinn ach pog
0 bihean ar aonach, nach ait an sceala, is mo dhaimh fein leo
Ta bean ab fhearr lom no cath is cead dhiobh nach bhfagham go de
Is ta cailin speiruil ag fear gan bhearla, dubghranna croin
Ta bean a dearfaidh da siulainn leithe go bhfaighinn an t-or
Is ta bean 'na leine is is fearr a mein no na tainte bo
Le bean a bhuairfeadh baile an mhaoir agus clar thin eoghaln
Is ni fhaicim leigheas ar mo ghalar fein ach scaird a dh'ol
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Beinng from Chicago, we have this fine tradition (probably has to do with Chicago's Irish heritage) that if you want something, you need to 'politic' to get everyone in line with what you want to do, or get the person who makes the decision on your side so the decision will go your way no matter what everyone thinks!
That's the reason for starting this early.
We are the same way at our house. Decorations don't go up unti December 16.....Beethoven's Birthday
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Cherish The Ladies do some nice harmony singing, judging by the album of theirs I've got ("The Girls Won't Leave The Boys Alone"). You could check them out on YouTube if you don't have any music of theirs.
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Trucks
Unfortunately, I work in a salt mine and for long periods of time may not have internet connectivity, or a great deal of time to carefully craft a response to some the the kind postings my threads recieve.
Also because my salt mine has huge security on its data network (once I even had a security clearance where I couldn't tell people what I did) I have to wait until I get home to access web based operations like you tube, face book, twitter etc.
So I won't see what's at the other end of the links until later tonight on my home computer.
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
dont be takin me seriously im onli raking ye about..hope you find a few good songs. I like the challenge of puting together a repetoire and enjoy searching the net for examples and sourchttp://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/22472
The Session: Discussions - It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!es of good tunes in any case. If you are interested in proper Choral music Is Gaelige - try Anúna
"Media Vita" performed by Anúna, solo by Michael McGlynn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfBwWrNOic
Powerful stuff. Probably beyond the capabilities of carol singers!!
Heres my favourite song of all time
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
spindizzy. As you can tell, our saltmine is a bit less physical than Winsford Rocks. But very deep sometimes. Oddly, our youngest daughter has gotten in a line of work where she can't tell us what she does. All that college tuition and all she can say is they pay her well, it's an ok job, only the government guys she works with are allowed to wear side arms, and she keeps getting new colored belts in some martial art that I can't pronounce!
Trucks
thanks for the Anuna suggestion. I totally forgot about them because I never put choral together with ITM. All my vocal recordings are old sean nos. I'll check that out later
It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
In my annual exercise in getting our Liturginazi away from the Amy Grant Tripe and maudlin claptrap of the Big Church Music Sausage Mill in Chicago, I am always looking for new arrangements of a few commonly recognizable traditonal Irish pieces that a. might have a nice recording, or b. better yet published spots, or c. even better yet charted vocals/ harmonies.
The one I have been wanting to do is Wexford Carol. For as often recorded, there does not seem to be anything really expceptional for it with spots. Some good recordings, but more bad for such a pretty song.
Also any other ideas that a bunch of singers can do with some nice instrumentation would also be helpful.
Thanks for any thoughts on this.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by zippydw
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
"Mo Ghile Mear" written by Seán Clárach Mac Dhomhnaill (c. 1691-1757).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDlCM_Mwtys
[Irish Gaelic]
Curfa
Sé mo laoch mo Ghile Mear
'Sé mo Chaesar, Ghile Mear,
Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin
Ó chuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear.
Seal da rabhas im' mhaighdean shéimh,
'S anois im' bhaintreach chaite thréith,
Mo chéile ag treabhadh na dtonn go tréan
De bharr na gcnoc is imigéin.
Curfa
Bímse buan ar buairt gach ló,
Ag caoi go cruaidh 's ag tuar na ndeór
Mar scaoileadh uaim an buachaill beó
'S ná ríomhtar tuairisc uaidh, mo bhrón.
Curfa
Ní labhrann cuach go suairc ar nóin
Is níl guth gadhair i gcoillte cnó,
Ná maidin shamhraidh i gcleanntaibh ceoigh
Ó d'imthigh sé uaim an buachaill beó.
Curfa
Ghile Mear 'sa seal faoi chumha,
'S Eire go léir faoi chlócaibh dubha;
Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin
Ó cuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear.
Curfa
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Already? I have this thing in my house, no Christmas until Thanksgiving is over. When the turkey is done, the decorations go up. No sense rushing things, all in good time.
Fair play to you though zippy, good man, thinking ahead.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Mary Black, Dolores Keane & Dé Danann - Hard Times Come Again No More. Written and composed by Stephen Foster in 1855 (Siar an Bóthar - 1985 National Stadium)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBl_eTCfTs
You sing these and ur welcome to come drinkin at my house at xmas. gd luck
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Here - Mary Black is quite tasty in this clip. go on Mary!
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Foggy Dew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13MQFCfCYdQ
As down the glen one Easter morn
To a city fair rode I,
Their armed lines of marching men
In squadrons passed me by.
No pipe did hum, no battle drum
Did sound its loud tattoo
But the Angelus' bells o'er the Liffey swells
Rang out in the foggy dew.
Right proudly high in Dublin town
Hung they out a flag of war.
'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky
Than at Suvla or Sud el Bar.
And from the plains of Royal Meath
Strong men came hurrying through;
While Brittania's Huns with their long-range guns
Sailed in through the foggy dew.
The bravest fell, and the requiem bell
Rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Easter-tide
In the springing of the year.
While the world did gaze with deep amaze
At those fearless men but few
Who bore the fight that freedom's light
Might shine through the foggy dew.
And back through the glen I rode again
And my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men
Whom I never shall see more
But to and fro
In my dreams I go
And I kneel and pray for you
For slavery fled
Oh, glorious dead
When you fell in the foggy dew
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Composed by a Priest from the North Fr O Neil and first performed in a church in North Belfast in the Whitehouse area by one of the Mc Laughlin sisters, cousin and of Edward Daly. Or so the story goes
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/foggy+dew/video/x4ou4x_jenny-holohan-the-foggy-dew-irish-t_music
my favorite version
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by shanty
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Mná na h-Éireann
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt8p5AxJn18
instrumental
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87CDtDj-lLE
Ta bean in Eirinn a phronnfadh sead damh is mo shaith le n-o
'S ta beann in Erinn is sa binne leithe mo rafla ceoil no seinm thead
Ata bean in Eirinn is niorbh fhearr le beo
Mise ag leimnigh no leagtha ! gcre is mo tharr faoi fhod
Ta bean in Eirinn a bheadh ag ead, liom mur bhfaighinn ach pog
0 bihean ar aonach, nach ait an sceala, is mo dhaimh fein leo
Ta bean ab fhearr lom no cath is cead dhiobh nach bhfagham go de
Is ta cailin speiruil ag fear gan bhearla, dubghranna croin
Ta bean a dearfaidh da siulainn leithe go bhfaighinn an t-or
Is ta bean 'na leine is is fearr a mein no na tainte bo
Le bean a bhuairfeadh baile an mhaoir agus clar thin eoghaln
Is ni fhaicim leigheas ar mo ghalar fein ach scaird a dh'ol
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Beinng from Chicago, we have this fine tradition (probably has to do with Chicago's Irish heritage) that if you want something, you need to 'politic' to get everyone in line with what you want to do, or get the person who makes the decision on your side so the decision will go your way no matter what everyone thinks!
That's the reason for starting this early.
We are the same way at our house. Decorations don't go up unti December 16.....Beethoven's Birthday
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by zippydw
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Sure any time squire. Good luck with fairytale in new york
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Cherish The Ladies do some nice harmony singing, judging by the album of theirs I've got ("The Girls Won't Leave The Boys Alone"). You could check them out on YouTube if you don't have any music of theirs.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by nicholas
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why ask a question if you don't awknowlege awnsers. especially when u are taken seriously. (plays a hard D on chanter - fuk yeeee)
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
In our home growing up, decorations went up on December 5 -- Feast of Saint Nicholas.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by fidkid
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"Mo Ghile Mear" again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ojy1W6r8L0
But 'bunch of singers and nice instrumentatiion' would something of understament.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by david_h
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would be something
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by david_h
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Trucks
Unfortunately, I work in a salt mine and for long periods of time may not have internet connectivity, or a great deal of time to carefully craft a response to some the the kind postings my threads recieve.
Also because my salt mine has huge security on its data network (once I even had a security clearance where I couldn't tell people what I did) I have to wait until I get home to access web based operations like you tube, face book, twitter etc.
So I won't see what's at the other end of the links until later tonight on my home computer.
No Harm, no foul I hope.
But I do apprecate the responses.
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by zippydw
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
dont be takin me seriously im onli raking ye about..hope you find a few good songs. I like the challenge of puting together a repetoire and enjoy searching the net for examples and sourchttp://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/22472
The Session: Discussions - It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!es of good tunes in any case. If you are interested in proper Choral music Is Gaelige - try Anúna
"Media Vita" performed by Anúna, solo by Michael McGlynn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfBwWrNOic
Powerful stuff. Probably beyond the capabilities of carol singers!!
Heres my favourite song of all time
An Poc Ar Buile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGhiW3qQvQ
..
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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oops messed that post upa bit
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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Come and work in our local salt mine
http://www.winsfordrocksaltmine.co.uk/
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by spindizzy
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
spindizzy. As you can tell, our saltmine is a bit less physical than Winsford Rocks. But very deep sometimes. Oddly, our youngest daughter has gotten in a line of work where she can't tell us what she does. All that college tuition and all she can say is they pay her well, it's an ok job, only the government guys she works with are allowed to wear side arms, and she keeps getting new colored belts in some martial art that I can't pronounce!
Trucks
thanks for the Anuna suggestion. I totally forgot about them because I never put choral together with ITM. All my vocal recordings are old sean nos. I'll check that out later
# Posted on August 24th 2009 by zippydw
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
Thanks for the help. Some nice suggestions and a couple of promising private contacts.
# Posted on August 25th 2009 by zippydw
Re: It is August and time to start thinking about.....Christmas!
I like Wexford Carol as done by Katie McMahon on her album "Celtic Christmas." You might give it a listen. All a matter of taste of course.
# Posted on August 26th 2009 by rob zouk