It was already 2 am here, and I was unable to "shake off drowsy sleep" any longer, so I stopped at 3 verses. If I'd stuck to editing all 5, I'd have been up all night!alanmapstone wrote: ↑December 17th, 2021, 4:11 amHi Maria
You have only included the first three verses out of five.
Assuming this is deliberate, this is PL OK!
Joanna -JoannaHoyt wrote: ↑December 17th, 2021, 9:45 am Personent Hodie. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Personent_hodie.jpg
Language: Latin
Link to file: https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_personenthodie_jhzh_128kb.mp3
Lyrics and tune author unknown. First published in Pia Cantiones, 1582.
Duration 2:55
(The melody I am singing is the one from Pia Cantiones. My brother Zach Hoyt has added a harmony of his own devising.)
Star In The East. https://archive.org/details/southernharmonym0000walk/page/16/mode/2up
Language: English
Link to file:https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_starintheeeast_jhzh_128kb.mp3
Original lyrics author Reginald Heber, but the exact version sung here, published in the Southern Harmony of 1835, appears to go with John Hickock's arrangement
Duration 3:57
(The melody I am singing is the one from the Southern Harmony. My brother Zach Hoyt has added a harmony of his own devising.)
Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night. https://hymnary.org/hymn/BWHT1899/355
Language: English
Link to file: https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_watchmantellus_jhzh_128kb.mp3
Lyrics author: John Bowring
I have sung this to the melody of "Aberystwyth" by Joseph Parry, 1879. https://hymnary.org/tune/aberystwyth_parry. As usual, my brother's harmony is his own invention.
Duration 3:09
ETA: Zach, the other singer here, has the forum name zachh
Thank you, Brize, for another good old Christmas hymn!BrizeCrize wrote: ↑December 17th, 2021, 10:27 am I'm going to slip in one more just under the wire, if only to 'bulk up' our collection, as so much of last year's talent did not enter this year (and I'll miss their voices). It's an old hymn (I guess they all are, PD requirement and all), apparently with several sets of words, but I went with:
link to recording: https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_christisborn_bc_128kb.mp3
link to text: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/i/s/b/cisborwi.htm
language: English
Author: William C. Wilbor 1852-1917
Music: W. Howard Doane 1832-1915
Title: Christ Is Born
Duration: 2:19
Thank you,
Brize
--Thank you very much for coordinating this project! One of the things I've always loved most about Christmas is singing old, odd, and obscure carols with friends; in this COVID time that isn't happening, but I am looking forward to hearing the Librivox singers.commonsparrow3 wrote: ↑December 17th, 2021, 2:56 pm
Thank you for all these lovely a capella carols! Your brother's harmony is gorgeous. I was especially mesmerized by the intriguing melody/harmony of "Star in the East".
Checker flagged "Personent Hodie" for background noise, but I listened to it, and I did not find any excessive noise.
All three carols are PL OK!
Thank you, Devorah! It's nice to see you back again this year!mightyfelix wrote: ↑December 17th, 2021, 5:42 pm Here are two from me
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Adapted by Gerard Moultrie (1829-1885)
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_letallmortalflesh_da_128kb.mp3
https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/97522
English
3:21
The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came, or Gabriel's Message
Paraphrased by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924)
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_angelgabriel_da_128kb.mp3
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/The_angel_gabriel.gif
English
3:05
I too love hearing the more obscure and unfamiliar carols, and I love the way this annual collection introduces me to so many carols I've never heard before!JoannaHoyt wrote: ↑December 17th, 2021, 6:13 pmOne of the things I've always loved most about Christmas is singing old, odd, and obscure carols with friends; in this COVID time that isn't happening, but I am looking forward to hearing the Librivox singers.
Checker often flags "background noise" when what it is detecting is just perfectly natural and normal breathing. If I don't hear any such problem, I ignore Checker. Anyway, I think that we all take slightly more audible breaths when we are singing, because we have to fill up our lungs at the brief intervals between sung lines. It's better to leave most of our breaths in the recording. It would sound unnatural and strange to have a recording without any breathing in it!JoannaHoyt wrote: ↑December 17th, 2021, 6:13 pmSorry about the Checker noise warning. I wonder if that's our breath sounds. I deamplified those but didn't altogether take them out--I don't know what the usual practice is for Librivox music.
Thank you!
Thank you, Alan!alanmapstone wrote: ↑December 18th, 2021, 7:14 pm Adam Lay Ybounden
Traditional 15th Century
English
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_adamlayybounden_asm_128kb.mp3
1.26
I have sung this from memory rather than from a text. I have not been able to find a PD text although I am sure there must be one as it is so old and well known.
The tune is my own improvisation. It is a bit flat and tuneless but I thought that might be suitable for the 15th Century
