Telling the story of the ups and downs, the adventurous and mundane days of one British family's self-imposed exile in the Capital Region of New York State.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Day 6.202: Special reproduction
On Sunday Exile #2 and I dipped our toes into doing something other than occupying a pew in our new church by performing the "special music" - three pieces of non-congregational music distributed through the service.
Here is one of the songs we prepared for that - reproduced inexpertly this evening and hastily uploaded to YouTube for your listening pleasure!
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church,
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The version in both my RC hymnals is the text by Reginald Heber and of course the music Nicaea by John B. Dykes; I mostly know the bass part if you can find a soprano (assuming E2 is an alto). I heard some disturbingly high notes in the video that need some low F's and G's for balance. :-)
ReplyDeleteExile #2 is indeed an alto! This is not the version we have ever sung in any of our various churches either. This version is from Sufjan Stevens' Songs for Christmas - but it works better for two guitars and a couple of voices!
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