A Quarantine Project: Harmony #15 — GLORIA

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Original harmonization: GLORIA

"Gloria" as in "Glooooooooooooooooooooooooo*gasp*oooooooo-ree-aaaah"

"Angels We Have Heard on High," Voices United #38.

The harmony? A little more aimless than usual. Pointed in spots, blunted in others, unexpected mostly everywhere.

Here's this thing I made. PDF link in the caption.

Peeeeeee-eeeeee-eeeeee-dee-eff

Le suivant? #43, Go Tell It On the Mountain.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #14 — REGENT SQUARE

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Original harmonization: REGENT SQUARE

Voices United #36 is "Angels, from the Realms of Glory," to Henry Smart's tune Regent Square. I've played some of Smart's organ music, and I quite like it. Not going to win any awards for shocking the establishment or rocking the public, but it's still solid music.

So I set it in 5-part harmony, SSATB. The second soprano and alto toss the melody back and forth a bit, but it's all there.

So here's the thing I made. PDF link in caption.

Files that link for hymn arrangements to be sung by choirs in five

Skip ahead a number and we get #38, with the tune Gloria. It's a fun one, I'm curious to see what I'll do with it.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #13 — IN DULCI JUBILO

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Original harmonization: IN DULCI JUBILO

At #35 of Voices United we find the famous Christmas tune, "In sweet celebration," most commonly used with the words "Good Christian Men/Friends, Rejoice," In Dulci Jubilo has a setting here for three-part women's voices, although it needn't be so restrictive as that. It's set with melody in the lower staff and two-part harmony in the upper staff, but the voices cross one another regularly and readily.

As usual, click the caption for a PDF download.
So here's the thing I did:

A PDF is here, so click this without fear

Further in is Regent Square, a good, solid Victorian tune, #36 in the book. That'll be fun.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #12 — ST THEODULPH

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Original harmonization and fauxbourdon: ST THEODULPH

Another old German tune, with a text ("O Lord, How Shall I Meet Thee") that is a translation by Catherine Winkworth of words by Paul Gerhardt which make up the last Advent selection that I'll be reharmonizing in Voices United (#31).
Maybe if this mess lasts long enough, I'll get around to the Advent section of another hymnal. We'll see.

Anyway, here's the thing I did. PDF link in the caption.

Click here and find a download, a link for PDF

So next, In Dulci Jubilo, Voices United #35.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #11 — CRÜGER (fauxbourdon)

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Original harmonization and fauxbourdon: CRÜGER

Since we're still in Advent, we have "Hail to the Lord's Annointed," with the tune Crüger, #30 in the Voices United hymnal. So, to avoid getting too tired of just writing harmonies, I gave it new harmony and a fauxbourdon treatment - the melody's down in the tenor.

So here's the thing I did. Link to a PDF in the caption of the picture.

And here you find the caption that's linked unto the file.

What follows is #31, St. Theodulph, which (much like Away In a Manger earlier) is generally more commonly associated with another time of year. Palm Sunday, in this case.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #10 — RICHMOND

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Original harmonization: RICHMOND

Richmond, to the text of "Hark the Glad Sound" at #29 in the Voices United hymnal, gets a... well, un-glad harmony. Thought I'd minor-key the tune, without thinking about the words, but hey, whatever, the text isn't the exercise!

As usual, click the caption on the picture for a link to a PDF.
So here's the thing.

Hark here the link! Click for the score, the promised PDF

Actually get two back-to-back; next is #30, Cruger.

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A Quarantine Project: Harmony #9 — NEANDER

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Original harmonization: NEANDER (UNSER HERRSCHER)

And we're back. From no accidentals, to as many as I can cram in to twelve bars, give or take. Still in Advent, this is #28 from Voices United, "Herald, Sound the Note of Gladness," and that note might be any one of the twelve, really. The tune is Neander, and it's a solid tune. The range makes writing harmonies for it a challenge sometimes.

Anyway, here's the thing I did.

Here's a PDF to link to, digital copy of the song.

Sure is something, huh.

VU #29 is next. Richmond. So many options...

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