--- Graham Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Branle de L'Official is better known in the UK as "Ding Dong Merrily > on High" Similar B part is "Angels we have heard on High"so I do those as a medley. > "Good King Wenceslas" in 6/8. -I'll hafta try that in 6/8 That is good one to experiment with different ways to play the tune. Doggage, various ornaments, etc, but There's not enough melody to make it interesting to play over and over.... Another one I like to try is ( UK associated) "The Holly and the Ivy", there again all we ever get is a snippet, One hopes there's a B or even a C part. The A gets sung over for the chorus. The zone...the energy,...or something is good and you want to play it a lot, but there's not much there to play, so I try to do it with different stuff every time. > "Gary F. Plazyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * medley: O Come O Come Emmanuel (slowly with middle G drone) I like to play this on the lower octave. I used to have "trick" key that accidently released the high string. I found that I could lightly play it thru and then make it happen during the "Rejoice" part, then I'd have both octaves after that. It was pretty distracting during the rest of the year so I fixed it.... Too bad, huh? > / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (medium speed with all 3 G drones) > * What Child Is This? [Greensleeves] (C drone) > * O Come, All Ye Faithful (adding a drone each repeat) > * Auld Lang Syne (all 3 G and 1 C drones) > We generally have a session about this time of year where we pick a key (so many diatonic instruments - usually G) and play all the Christmas songs we can think of.... There are denominational differences, so you have to stay on yr toes. For example my Baptist unbringing leads me to hold some note an extra measure, where a Methodist may charge right on thru.
For me "Have Nagila' is a "Seasonal" tune. Although my jewish colleagues tell me : Hannukah is really that sort of holiday, there are no songs" it seems to cheer them up to include them in the party...and you so seldom get to use that Ab... Another one I light to play with, but I never perform it: I just am never satisfied with my arrangements is Mel Torme's "Christmas Song" aka "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire". Some places the drone works very well, and some it doesn't. but it is chromatic as all get-out and challenging, so I keep trying.. Maybe I can arrange it for viellistic Trio or something. Sometime.. after I finish working up "Les Patins Blanc" for Handbell Choir and.... Merry Happy Roy T.
