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Once in Royal David's City

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An Dunfunyans (The Awakening)

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Shenandoah

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Suo Gan (arranged by Tamsin Dearnley)

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Dùn

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Wassail Song (Here We Come A-Wassailing)

The text is from W.H. Husk's "Songs of the Nativity" published in 1864. The tune is from Bramley and Stainer's "Christmas Carols, New and Old" published in 1871, and was from Yorkshire.
the lyrics:
1. Here we come a wassailing
Among the leaves so green,
Here we come a wandering
So fair to be seen.
Chorus
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too,
And God bless you and send you a happy New Year.
And God send you a happy New Year.
2. Our wassail cup is made
Of the rosemary tree,
And so is your beer
Of the best barley. Chorus
3. We are not daily beggars
That beg from door to door,
But we are neighbours' children
Whom you have seen before. Chorus
4. Good Master and good Mistress,
As you sit by t...

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Noël Nouvelet

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This is one of many early traditional French noëls that trace all or part of the Nativity narrative. It was sung at New Year and was one of the most popular noëls of the sixteenth century. The earliest source is a late fifteenth century manuscript: the Arsenal Manuscript. Some versions of the song have thirteen verses, I've included a translation of the verses that are usually sung. English tra...

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Once in Royal David's City

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Cecil Frances Alexander wrote the text of this carol for her godchildren in 1848. A year later, Henry Gauntlett set it to music; it appears in the first edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern published in 1861. Since 1919, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at the King's College Chapel, Cambridge, has begun its Christmas Eve service, with "Once in Royal David's City" as the Processional hymn;...

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An Dunfunyans (The Awakening)

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An Dunfunyans is a traditional medieval carol from Cornwall, England.

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Shenandoah

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This particular arrangement by Tamsin Dearnley borrows ideas from both Miles Davis and Bill Evans to re-interpret the song as a jazz ballad. Shenandoah is a traditional American song, the lyrics are tinged with the sadness of separation. The song "Shenandoah" appears to have originated with American and Canadian voyageurs or fur traders traveling down the Missouri River in canoes and has develo...

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Suo Gan (arranged by Tamsin Dearnley)

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Suo Gan is a traditional Welsh lullaby written by an anonymous composer. It was first recorded in print around 1800 and the lyrics were notably captured by the Welsh folklorist Robert Bryan (1858-1920). The song's title simply means lullaby (suo = lull; cân = song). The melody of Suo Gan is also used for Christmas hymns like ‘As the Winter Days Grow Longer’ and ‘Christ Before Us’. The lyrics tr...

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Dùn

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A traditional song from the outer Hebrides Islands in Scotland, Dùn is one of the lost songs from the evacuated Hebridean archipelago of St Kilda. It all began when Trevor Morrison sat down at the piano in Edinburgh's Silverlea Care Home in 2006 and began to play. The magic did not go unnoticed.The tunes were simple, naive even, but memorable and with an extraordinary emotional depth. As a 10-y...

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Canarie II

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The Canary dance (known as Canario in Italian sources, Canarie in French ones) was a Renaissance dance inspired by indigenous dance and song of the Canary Islands that became popular all over Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century. It is mentioned in dance manuals from France and Italy, and in sources from Spain and England, as well, including in plays by William Shakespeare. This parti...

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Try to Remember

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Try to Remember is a song about nostalgia from the musical comedy play The Fantasticks (1960). It is the first song performed in the show, encouraging the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. The words were written by the American lyricist Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt composed the music. the lyrics: Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh, so mellow. Try to rem...

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To a Wild Rose

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"To a Wild Rose" is the first piece from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, by the American composer Edward MacDowell (1860 - 1908). Composed for solo piano, it was completed in 1896. The composer's love for roses was so great that he was buried under a boulder, around which many rose plants grew. I am playing this from the original piano score.

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Opening Scene

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Opening Scene is by Tamsin Dearnley, a contemporary British composer and lever harper; she composes a wide variety of music including game music and installation music. Here's what Tamsin says about this piece: "The sun rises over a fantastical landscape of rolling green hills and clear streams. Is that a herd of wild horses in the distance, or are they unicorns...? I suppose I was feeling slig...

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Gabriel's Oboe

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"Gabriel's Oboe" is the main theme for the 1986 film The Mission, with Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson and directed by Roland Joffé. The theme was written by Italian composer Ennio Morricone, and has since been arranged and performed by artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Holly Gornik, and Brynjar Hoff, among others. The theme has been called "unforgettable" and a "celebrated oboe melody". In 2...

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Ashokan Farewell

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Ashokan Farewell is a piece of music composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who gave the tune its name, at the Ashokan Field Campus of SUNY New Paltz (now the Ashokan Center) in Upstate New York. The tune was used as the title theme of ...

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Over the Rainbow

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Harold Arlen composed the music and Yip Harburg penned the lyrics to Over the Rainbow, which was written in 1939 for The Wizard of Oz. The film was about young Dorothy Gale flying from her home in Kansas via a tornado to the colorful, strange world of Oz. The song was originally sung by actress and musician Judy Garland and won the Oscar for Best Original Song. For her entire life, Garland was ...