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resonantUnlike Charles Dickens, I know why doornails are particularly dead, but I don't know why dogs are particularly sick. I've seen sick cats, and they were pretty damned sick. But a dog is what I've been sick as. It's lovely to be out of the house for the first time since Wednesday.
And now I'm back with more Christmas music!
Variations on a Theme of Three Ships
I never noticed, until it was pointed out in the liner notes of some CD or other, that you could make a medley, or possibly even a round, out of all the various songs that go "dee yadada yadada yadada yadada Christmas Day in the Morning." See for yourself.
The whole collection in a .zip file, 31MB.
Or download separately:
Christmas Revels, Dame, Get Up and Make Your Pies from "Christmas Day in the Morning." Children's choir.
Revels, Some Say the Devil's Dead from Rose & Thistle. Another children's choir. (Don't be afraid. Revels children's choirs are better than average at staying on key.)
Greensleeves 1, Greensleeves 2, and Greensleeves 3, Boston Camerata, "Elizabeth's Music."
Johnny Cunningham, I Saw Three Ships/Bells No Bells from "The Soul of Christmas." Male soloist with Celtic pipes and drums.
Revels, Apple Tree Wassail from The Christmas Revels. Band and choir. Humorously out-of-tune instruments.
Revels, There Was a Pig Went Out to Dig from The Christmas Revels. Children's choir.
Nat King Cole, Caroling, Caroling from The Christmas Song. Jazz.
Waverly Consort, A Wassail Suite from "A Waverly Consort Christmas." Acoustic instrumental with Renaissance feel.
One Night in December, Christmas Day Ida Moarnin' from "Old Fashioned Christmas" (thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ceciliaregent). A familiar tune if you listen to Celtic, but not one that I associate with Christmas. Instrumental.
Early Music New York, Lumps of Pudding from "A Colonial Christmas" (thanks toceciliaregent). Instrumental, early music.
As a reminder again, music I'm looking for:
- A good choral performance of the Parker/Shaw arrangement of "O Sanctissima"
- A good choral performance of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella." English, French, I'm not picky. (I already have the Robert Shaw Chorale version.)
- A carol called "Corpus Christi Carol," but not the Jeff Buckley one. It begins "The hen flew east and the hen flew west," and it was played on "Thistle and Shamrock" a long time ago.
- Carly and Lucy Simon doing "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
And now I'm back with more Christmas music!
Variations on a Theme of Three Ships
I never noticed, until it was pointed out in the liner notes of some CD or other, that you could make a medley, or possibly even a round, out of all the various songs that go "dee yadada yadada yadada yadada Christmas Day in the Morning." See for yourself.
The whole collection in a .zip file, 31MB.
Or download separately:
Christmas Revels, Dame, Get Up and Make Your Pies from "Christmas Day in the Morning." Children's choir.
Revels, Some Say the Devil's Dead from Rose & Thistle. Another children's choir. (Don't be afraid. Revels children's choirs are better than average at staying on key.)
Greensleeves 1, Greensleeves 2, and Greensleeves 3, Boston Camerata, "Elizabeth's Music."
Johnny Cunningham, I Saw Three Ships/Bells No Bells from "The Soul of Christmas." Male soloist with Celtic pipes and drums.
Revels, Apple Tree Wassail from The Christmas Revels. Band and choir. Humorously out-of-tune instruments.
Revels, There Was a Pig Went Out to Dig from The Christmas Revels. Children's choir.
Nat King Cole, Caroling, Caroling from The Christmas Song. Jazz.
Waverly Consort, A Wassail Suite from "A Waverly Consort Christmas." Acoustic instrumental with Renaissance feel.
One Night in December, Christmas Day Ida Moarnin' from "Old Fashioned Christmas" (thanks to
ceciliaregent). A familiar tune if you listen to Celtic, but not one that I associate with Christmas. Instrumental.Early Music New York, Lumps of Pudding from "A Colonial Christmas" (thanks to
ceciliaregent). Instrumental, early music.As a reminder again, music I'm looking for:
- A good choral performance of the Parker/Shaw arrangement of "O Sanctissima"
- A good choral performance of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella." English, French, I'm not picky. (I already have the Robert Shaw Chorale version.)
- A carol called "Corpus Christi Carol," but not the Jeff Buckley one. It begins "The hen flew east and the hen flew west," and it was played on "Thistle and Shamrock" a long time ago.
- Carly and Lucy Simon doing "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
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Date: 12/10/05 05:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/10/05 05:11 pm (UTC)I learned that from a tour of Salem, Massachusetts, years ago. I still remember the tour guide standing in front of a door that was studded with huge nails until it looked kind of like one of those oranges that have had the cloves poked into it to make a pomander.
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Date: 12/10/05 05:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/17/05 05:36 pm (UTC)We were there in 1989. It tells you something about us that we were honeymooning in Salem on Halloween, I guess. It was lots of fun.
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Date: 12/10/05 06:00 pm (UTC)Also: sent you an e-mail for your snail-mail addy; let me know if it doesn't get there.
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Date: 12/17/05 05:39 pm (UTC)I've bought all but one of my Revels CDs used on eBay -- which is perfectly legal, but also means that the Revels have only ever gotten about $14.99 out of me. Which also seems like a pity.
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Date: 12/10/05 06:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 12/10/05 06:38 pm (UTC)While cats keep dragging themselves around even half-dead.
Glad you're getting better.
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Date: 12/17/05 05:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/17/05 05:48 pm (UTC)Did you ever see that film about/by an American Buster Keaton fan, where Geraldine Chaplin was kept in a wheel-chair, motionless, to burst forth with the energy of a revitalised snake once the experiment was over? Well, the good news (for us) is that she could not move at all after that time. Erm, so I guess that means that you can't store it up. Or something. Darn, I ramble and would rather be a cat.
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Date: 12/10/05 11:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 12/11/05 12:45 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 12/17/05 05:43 pm (UTC)you are every excellent thing!
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Date: 12/15/05 02:37 am (UTC)Totally hypothesizing with no data here.
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Date: 12/17/05 05:45 pm (UTC)One year my aunt gave my brother a big packet of grape-flavored Bubble Yum as a Christmas present. It was under the tree, wrapped in Christmas paper -- and of course under the paper was a clear plastic wrapper, and inside that, each piece of gum was wrapped in foil.
Yes. The dog ate the package, wrappings and all. And as far as I know, it didn't make him sick at all.
(The "sick as a dog" thing also makes me think of the song "Old Blue," with the line, Old Blue died and he died so hard/He shook the ground in my back yard.)
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Date: 12/19/05 05:36 am (UTC)Version two (http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DGI31UMWP19M25F2AG0BEJDU8) It's the same group, but the choir here has more members and there is an organ added.