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November 24, 2024
From the Old Parish Church in Cathcart.
A beautiful rendition of "O Holy Night":
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It would be even more beautiful if they sang it an octave higher. I am sad that popular and everyday singers use androgynous voices. No more Julie Andrews or Bing Crosby.
various nice, though my fav is the Wexford Carol
https://youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc
Not sure how the one on the right can hit those notes with that posture and her hands in her pockets. Her diaphragm must be incredible.
I usually dislike this song. Something about the way people sing it. But these ladies didn't do that thing. They did something else. To me, it had an amazing feeling, beautiful gentleness, and delicate phrasing.
I did not care for it. "A thrill of hope ..." -- did anyone hear any sort of thrill in their voices? Is there any emphasis on the alliteration in "weary world"? Is there any joy in their voices when that weary world is supposedly rejoicing?
The lyrics are there for a reason.
They didn’t go opera mode, or something.
I like how Billie Eilish makes her singing sound effortless. When other pop singers try to copy that they sound like they are whispering instead.
@Ann Althouse - part of the feeling is the open fourths and fifths in the harmonies early on - like Gregorian chant (with its associations) - and more generally, the pure intonation (like barber shop quartets and brass ensembles) goes deeper than equal temperament - which makes modulations work, but diminishes the resonance of harmonies.
I have the Pavarotti Christmas album with this Carol as title. Hus version very different for sure.
I love the Advent season: the change of hymns, the chill in the Anglican church because I didn’t get there early to turn the heat on, the ladies in their sweaters, my kids returning to their tradition—receiving the Eucharist together again as a family. Midnight Mass and Christmas morning. I honestly don’t know what is the secular substitute.
They may not have that range - it gets fairly high at the end, an octave up would be really high.
I got to do the Wexford Carol a cappella with my community chorus years ago. We were performing in a church with lovely acoustics and my director had me run up to the choir loft and sing from there while the rest of the choir moved to stand around the outside aisles singing (more like intoning) the string parts (from The Drill Sgt's YouTube link). It was SUPER hard - the director didn't give me time to catch my breath so I spent about two verses trying to sound sustained with no air!
But it was very effective, and probably my favorite solo ever.
also the harmony doesn't slavishly follow the melody, so it slips in and out of suspensions.
I think the Scottish accent is one of the most beautiful in the world. Of course, if you get a Scot from too far out of the city, it rapidly becomes completely unintelligible.
Are there any tricks to listening to a TikTok without having TikTok? Every time I try, it just tries to make me create an account. I knuckled under with X but I'm standing firm on this one.
part of the feeling is the open fourths and fifths in the harmonies early on - like Gregorian chant (with its associations) - and more generally, the pure intonation (like barber shop quartets and brass ensembles) goes deeper than equal temperament - which makes modulations work, but diminishes the resonance of harmonies.
I should be glad there are people who understand this stuff. I cannot read a note of music, nor play a single instrument. I enjoy singing a song I know and love, but cannot keep the tune when doing so, to the point that my family forbids me to sing hymns out loud in church.
I am 100% left brain dominant. My mother and father were this way too. I think it's got a genetic basis. Music and art do not touch my soul, and I find more sublime beauty and truth in Maxwell's equations or Euler's identity or the Krebs cycle than in all the works of the human creative spirit since the Cro-Magnons first painted their cave walls.
"Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is".
-- Paul Erdős
(By the way, my Erdős number is 4, for those who appreciate such things.)
All Celtic accents
In my youth, my family left the Episcopal church and joined a continuing Anglican church after the 1928 prayer book was dropped in the late 1970's. I still have fond memories of the beautiful liturgy.
I go to a traditionalist Catholic church with my Catholic wife now, but still have a much easier time reciting the old BCP versions of the Nicene Creed and other passages that I memorized. I'm a Matthew 18:20 kind of guy and will happily attend any Trinitarian church.
I knew before I even clicked the link that you chose this version. It's achingly beautiful!
Agree on the accent - and the point about suspensions above.
if you get a Scot from too far out of the city, it rapidly becomes completely unintelligible.
Urban Scots accents from the working-class parts of Glasgow can be damn near incomprehensible too. But I think no one in the Anglosphere can hold a candle to the Tyneside "Geordies".
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this.
We once housed a Northern Irish girl who was coaching soccer clinics. She had a couple of Scot boys very interested in her and were around a lot. One was from Glasgow, spoke beautiful English. The other from somewhere in the Highlands, the Glasgow guy had to translate.
All lovely people, by the way.
I can play it directly from the Althouse site - can you not?
Beautiful!
Wonderful!!
My boss's boss--the provost--had an Erdos number of 1.
"Music and art do not touch my soul . . . ." The usual response to something like that is "I feel sorry for you," but I've always thought that was patronizing, and you seem to be doing OK.
I agree with Nietzsche about music, but it's a big cosmos and there's plenty to experience.
I liked it. Adam's big hit.
Another version I like is from the Chieftain's
Too bad the Anglicans seem to want be a community group rather than a church these days
Lovely.
Perhaps at Septuagesima, Althouse will give us a beautifully sung version of 'Jesus Christ is Risen Today'.
Pretty good. But I don't like the singers not hitting the note bang-on at first, but having to rely on a slide up to it. Bugs me.
I first heard this as a child. We had a 78 record of enrico Caruso singing cantique de Noel and I loved it. Still my favorite Christmas carol some 60+ years later. But unlike the professor, I am not a fan of these girls delicate phrasing. They sing as they might sing silent night, “all is calm, all is bright “.
I much prefer it sung as one might sing o come all ye faithful, “o come let us adore him”. not delicate, robust. I hear “fall on your knees “ and think forte! Forte!
Pavarotti has a nice version on YouTube
What a difference!
1. Lovely.
2. Memories of Catch-22.
I’m Evangelical in my theology with a life-changing conversion while I was in the Air Force in 1983. I’m a Mat 18:20 guy myself. To the good SGT, my experience in the Anglican church is she is more of a church than my experience in the nondenominational tradition. It’s probably just my temperament.
I know it’s a bit kitschy, but I really love this version by Celine Dion.
https://youtu.be/Y1oLk54R5Xg
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