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Let Us All Be Merry

Classical/Choral music • 2003 • Lyricist: George Wither
 
     
 

Let Us All Be Merry


2.50 USD

Seller Stephen Smith
PDF, 796.8 Kb ID: SM-000589752 Upload date: 05 Oct 2023
Instrumentation
Mixed choir
Scored for
Choir
Type of score
Vocal score
Key
C major
Publisher
Stephen Smith
Language
English
Difficulty
Difficult
A fun, virtuosic Christmas piece in 7/8 time, for mixed choir a cappella with multiple divisi. Commissioned in 2003 by the University of British Columbia University Singers, whose recording is provided for reference. The piece sets a 17th-century text about the festivities of the Christmas season, and each successive verse piles on more canonic voices and adds wilder notes to the harmonies, as the merry-makers find the "cellar's depths" and start to feel the room spinning a bit! Fortunately, all ends well, with a resolution to "sing some roundelays" and "make our mirth the fuller." The last verse says: "And while we thus inspired sing, / Let all the streets with echoes ring, / Forests and fields and everything, / And let us all be merry!"
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