On Dec 24, 2006, at 7:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I've been working on a project arranging selected Christmas Carols for viols over the past few years, and thought I'd share some of them with you as a way of wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. They are here: http://dfenton.com/Carols/
I just got around to listening to them now. Very nice! If they sound that well with the cheesy MIDI band, they must sound spectacular with live viols.
2. yes, Virginia, that's parallel 5ths at the end of Silent Night. I don't care.
I think it's been a hundred years or so since anyone cared about parallel 5ths in modern music, and I think your arrangements definitely qualify as modern.
I sometimes like to get my students in the first week or so of jazz arranging class to go up to their classical theory teachers from the previous semester and say, "Hey, you know what we wrote today in jazz arranging class? Parallel perfect fifths! And we didn't prepare OR resolve any suspensions, either!" while I hide behind a doorway and giggle at the look on their faces.
It only worked once, though. Now my colleagues have prepared answers, which they deliver smugly over the students' shoulders directly to me in my hiding place, making me grind my teeth and make my Jerry Seinfeld "Newman!" face from being thwarted in my evil plans. 8-)
Anyway, keep it up. I particularly liked the neo-Baroque feel to your arrangements, while being modern and pleasing to a modern ear. Keep sharing them with us.
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