| Author | Topic: Add: Second Britford Carol | |
| dmcg | Posted - 10 Nov 03 - 09:15 am | |
Awake and join the cheerful choir Upon this joyful morn And glad Hosanna loudly sing For joy a Saviour's born. Let all the choirs on earth below Their voices loudly raise; And sweetly join the cheerful band Of angels in the skies. The shining host in bright array Descend from heaven to eath; And all the gentle heart and voice Proclaim a Saviour's birth. Source: Wiltshire Folk Songs and Carols, W Matt and Sons, Bournemouth Notes: Details on this carol are a little thin. The book, Wiltshire Folk Songs and Carols, is in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library but is undated. The edition there is a reprint (Norwood edition 1975). The final pages of the book contain notes on the songs, but none are provided for this carol. Rev Geoffry Hill was the vicar of East with West Harnham, Salisbury, and produced this book in conjuction with Walter Barnett, who arranged the music. Database entry is here. (Fixed the worst typos I spotted. Angles in the sky, indeed) Edited By dmcg - 10-Nov-2003 10:39:40 AM | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 10 Nov 03 - 05:12 pm | |
Roud 1160; one example only at present. The book was originally published Bournemouth: W. Mate, 1904. | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 11 Nov 03 - 09:22 am | |
"Awake, and Join the Cheerful Choir" is in Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, eds., The New Oxford Book of Carols (OUP, 1992, pp. 318-19), with this note: An infectious hornpipe setting which was popular in the Puddletown area. We take the setting from an accurate manuscript carol-book, headed 'George Hanford Book 1830', in the Dorset County Museum (Box File 2, Folk-Music, Church Music L.1957/53). An identical version (apart from the cadential variations), but without the symphony, is in two manuscript books from Puddletown, where the Hardys played when the Stinsford choir was disbanded in 1841: 'W.C. Crocker [altered to 'James Saunders', presumably inherited on Crocker's death] Puddletown Ocotober 15 1827', and 'James Saunders His Book [copied from] 1823', which is mostly copied from the Crocker book. The melody and three verses (the normal quota) are also in a Hardy family carol-book (Thomas Hardy Memorial Collection 1458.57) used 'on the roads' at Stinsford and compiled 1820-30, and a complete setting in the best of the Hardy sources, the Antell manuscript in the Dorset County Record Office. We take the text from W.A. Pickard-Cambridge's Collection of Dorset Carols (1926), which gives four satnzas and a different tune, as sung at Bloxworth. A very similar version of the tune, sung to the same text, is one of the Wiltshire Folk Songs and Carols (Bournemouth [1904]) 'taken down from the mouths of old men' by Revd Geoffrey Hill.The fourth stanza given is: But let us join the cheerful songRecorded by Mellstock Band (on Under the Greenwood Tree (Music Of Thomas Hardy's Wessex)), and recently by Anonymous 4 (on Wolcum Yule). | ||