A Quarantine Project: Harmony #6 — BESANÇON

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Original harmonization: BESANÇON

Number nine, but no revolution. Voices United hymn #9 is "People, Look East! The Time is Near," to the fun French folk ... song (I couldn't think of a synonym for 'song' that started with an 'f') given the tune name Besançon.
Personally I like this one to fly on its own, but I think this harmony may need a more measure pace than I prefer.
External Mediafire link to the PDF in the description.

PDF here! Just click the link! It should work by now, I think.

For my next magic trick, I'm going to make ten numbers disappear! Everything between #10 and #19 is ineligible for my work, either just being a prayer in (copyrighted) text or being too modern (and thus still under copyright). So #20, Winchester New, is up.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #5 — LO HOW A ROSE

A Quarantine Project: Harmony #5 — LO HOW A ROSE 

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Original harmonization: ES IST EIN' ROS

Voices United #8, Advent music. An old, old German tune, with a new, new harmony. It'll be fun. Or, at least, I think it'll be fun. I think it is fun, frankly.
I don't know. I don't have a lot to say, so here's a bit of music, with a PDF link in caption.

Lo, how a link e'er clicking // a PDF doth link

Besançon comes next! A fun little French folk melody.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #4 — AWAY in a MANGER

A Quarantine Project: Harmony #4 — AWAY IN A MANGER

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Original harmonization: AWAY IN A MANGER

Yep, you read right. Voices United #6, still in the Advent section, is "A Candle is Burning," to the tune Away in a Manger, and so it's next on my list. James R. Murray put this tune out there in 1887, and I've done stuff with it before (not to mention the text) but this is a fresh harmonization this 25th of March, because why not.

As usual, there's a link to a PDF in the caption of the photo.

PDFs! PDFs! It's a ... file format used to share documents!

Next... hmmm... not #7, it's copyright 1989, so... #8. Es ist ein' Ros. Now there's a challenge.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #3 — COVID, a new tune by Vladimir Antonov-Charsky

A Quarantine Project: Harmony #3 — Covid

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Original harmonization: COVID

COVID is a new tune by Vladimir Antonov-Charsky, using the text "In Grief and Fear, to thee, O Lord" by William Bullock.

The text is somewhat appropriate to the news of the day.

So here's the thing I did.

PDF link! PDF link!

I didn't write the tune. If you're interested in the tune, or use of the piece, contact Vladimir at alvirdimus@gmail.com

If you want to see the original composition, here's a YouTube link.

And of course, there's a PDF link in the description for my harmony!

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The original tune is copyright Vladimir Antonov-Charsky

A Quarantine Project: Harmony #2 — Stuttgart

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reharmonization: Stuttgart

Voices United #2 is "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus," set to the tune Stuttgart, from the Psalmodia Sacra of 1715. So, yes, very much in the public domain.

So here's a reharmonization. I went a little chromatic. This is not unusual for me.

So here's the thing I did.

Click here for a PDF of the same.

Next up... #3 is a French text that uses the tune, #4  is David Young's 1988 tune Whittlesey, and #5 is Alberto Taulé's 1972 self-named tune, so next up will be #6, which is Away in a Manger. While it is usually connected to a Christmas text, in this book it is not. So it's next!

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #1 — Veni Emmanuel

SO WE'RE ALL STUCK INSIDE...

but it's a chance to do some harmonizing.

So, I have this hymnal. These hymnals. Lots of them. Since Voices United was sitting nearby, it goes first. I'm going to harmonize, or re-harmonize, every public domain tune within the book, bit by bit. Minimum one a day.

So. Veni Emmanuel is Voices United hymn #1

And here's The Thing I Did.

Click here for a PDF of the harmonization

Next: Voices United #2: Stuttgart

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Fanfare and harmony: "Victory"

Well, it's about six weeks or so until Easter, just enough time to learn a new fanfare for an old tune. And a twisty sort of harmony for it.

The tune "Victory" comes from Palestrina, and the most common harmonization is by W. H. Monk. I somehow doubt that my rather... robust, chromatic harmonization will supplant it, but that's really not the point of the exercise. The fanfare is in 5/4 because, ah... because it is.

And here they are (PDF link)

More Easter music coming up!

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