What's your favourite Christman Carol?
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Ffion Flugel
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Coventry Carol, every time!
impycornet
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I agree
emziesonic
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yep i third that! though i find carols abit tedious i have to say that one a good'un! 
Alyn James
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Can't remember her last name but it was deffo the Christmas of '74 :icon_cheesygrin:.....
I'm pretty sure she was a Carol....could be wrong, mind....
rcalvert20
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My favourite carol ever is O Holy Night, its so pretty
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sarah_bari#1
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We wish you a merry christmas cos that means we've finished!! Hurrah!!
towse1972
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Coventry Carol is my traditional favourite. I played a fantastic arrangement by Andy Baker a few week ago. Very nice Andy (again).
My all time Christmas carol is O come, O come Emmanuel. I love it. It's featured in The Kingdom Triumphant by Eric Ball (I think!). What a fantastic Christmas opener.
My all time Christmas carol is O come, O come Emmanuel. I love it. It's featured in The Kingdom Triumphant by Eric Ball (I think!). What a fantastic Christmas opener.
Hells Bones
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Since moving to Wales, I'm kinda starting to prefer some of the Welsh ones...
O Deued pob Cristion
Hwiangerdd Mair
Carol y Seren
Suo Gan (Not really a carol but you get the idea)
O Deued pob Cristion
Hwiangerdd Mair
Carol y Seren
Suo Gan (Not really a carol but you get the idea)
michellegarbutt
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Sweet Chiming Christmas Bells
Just been out today and judging by the amount of money going in the boxes at any one time, the public seem to like "on a Starry Night" and "Calypso Carol". But really anything with a lively beat. They put very little in when we play slow carols
Just been out today and judging by the amount of money going in the boxes at any one time, the public seem to like "on a Starry Night" and "Calypso Carol". But really anything with a lively beat. They put very little in when we play slow carols
grahammck
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My favourite carol ever is O Holy Night, its so pretty
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Mine too!
Aussie Tuba
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Praise Ye The Lord no. 66 in Red carol book
it's good to play something a little challenging after all those easy carols
it's good to play something a little challenging after all those easy carols
StellaJohnson
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why oh why, coventry carol is the most depressing carol ever!!!
I do like wish you a merry christmas, as it does mean hometime, as previously mentioned!!
Hells Bones
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Probably because of the chord progression. It is rather lovely.
Coventry Carol is lovely, but I have to say the version in the red books and the green books before that doesn't really do the carol justice. I seem to remember it should be in a different time signature than 3/4 (9/8?) and there is definitely a time change for a bar midway though. To stick it into waltz time kind of messes up the beauty of the writing IMO.
For me Who Is He (or as we say around these parts "oo isE") is just gorgeous, but again the version in the old green books was better with a euph part to die for.
There are several - we often go "off piste" when numbers and players ability allow and we often get surprised at how good some of the lesser known carols are. But we are en-debited to the SA for producing such flaming good books to play out of. Today we had a very mixed group of players - always unbalanced as we were light on cornets but with a but of sensible part allocation the group always sounded great, whether it was four players or ten.
For me Who Is He (or as we say around these parts "oo isE") is just gorgeous, but again the version in the old green books was better with a euph part to die for.
There are several - we often go "off piste" when numbers and players ability allow and we often get surprised at how good some of the lesser known carols are. But we are en-debited to the SA for producing such flaming good books to play out of. Today we had a very mixed group of players - always unbalanced as we were light on cornets but with a but of sensible part allocation the group always sounded great, whether it was four players or ten.
I've got a copy of Coventry Carol here marked as "original tune of 1591" and it doesn't have a time signature! Bar lengths are two, three or four (minim) beats at various places. Interestingly it only has three (rather than four) parts and includes a delicious F sharp against F natural clash three bars before the end.
The evened out three in a bar, four part version is certainly newer but still of some fair vintage by now. I can't say I'd want to see anyone waltz to it, it would be like watching 'Strictly' in super-slow motion...!
All that said, I do rather like it. And 'In the bleak midwinter' as well. And plenty of others. I don't think I could possibly settle on a favourite!!