O Come, All Ye Faithful — the Byzantine remix version

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  • Denise Ray 12.20.2010

    Hey! I like it A LOT! Seri­ously you should put it on Finale and email it to me! Well done!

  • Fr Gre­gory

    SWEET!

    Can I get a copy of the mp3 for my site?

    In Christ,

    +FrG

  • Grace

    Hey, many thanks.

    Finale: Uh oh. I was afraid some­one would ask me some­thing like that. When I get an yen to do some­thing like this, I can only do it by ear. I’m afraid if my “left brain” gets involved, it’ll rise up and kill the whole thing. (“What are you DOING? That can’t be right!”) It was almost painful to tran­scribe as much of it as I did for my lit­tle graphic here. Since I’ve got the three tracks on my dig­i­tal recorder, I could send them to you indi­vid­u­ally if you wanted to take the time, but I can’t imag­ine how weird those would sound apart from each other.

  • Anam Cara

    Gosh I love that. I’m now going to see if I can fig­ure out some way to down­load it.….

  • Grace

    You bless my tiny heart! I’ll update the post with a link once I get a lit­tle tech sup­port from Greg.

  • Anam Cara

    Yep, we need the mp3 so we can all learn it for next year.

  • Grace

    Okay, you’ve got a link now that should start it down­load­ing automatically.

  • Anam Cara

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is now in my iTunes and will go on my iPod!!!!!!

  • Leanne

    I am glad you posted this on fb. I remem­ber Jamie telling me of your blog and I haven’t been here in ages. Now I will have to get a chance to delve deeply in to the archives of your blog. For now, I think your voice is from heaven, so sweet and serene. I’m sure many would like a copy…

    Merry Christ­mas Grace!

  • s-p

    I LOVE it! One of my fond mem­o­ries is of sit­ting around with a bunch of con­vert priests and chanters and doing old protes­tant hymns in Byzan­tine tones. Some of them actu­ally work very well, this is one.

  • Grace

    I’d love to hear Rock of Ages in an irmo­logic Tone 8 — sort of “Lord, I Have Cried, Cleft for Me”. Sounds like a lot of fun.

    I’ve sort of thought through the other car­ols that are out there, and I may have one more in me, if I can work out the details.

  • jb

    Good stuff, my friend.

    All the bless­ings of the Incar­na­tion to you and yours always.

    Still pray for you, too. jb

  • Word­mama

    That is pos­i­tively haunt­ing, you amaz­ing woman. Sounds like you’re in good voice too! I really think it would be worth tran­scrib­ing it com­pletely, if you have the time.

  • Kester

    A) You need to do the whole song, espe­cially the “God of God/Deum de Deo” and the “Splen­dor Eternal/Aeterni Par­en­tis” verses.

    B) This is totally awesome!

    C) You need to make record­ings of all the Christ­mas hymns, pay­ing spe­cial atten­tion to the verses we always neglect to sing. A lot of them, espe­cially the Wes­leyan hymns, have very good theo­sis imagery. I’ll post some links to some of the best ones if you’re interested.

    D) THANK YOU!

  • D. Stall

    Here’s the link to the mp3 file — http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/wp-content/uplo…

  • Wendy

    Wow — I wasn’t sure if I’d like it or not, but I LOVED it! Wow!

  • Grace

    Phew! Well, not every­one was a fan — I had one emailer who was down­right offended at the effort. But I just thought of it as a bit of chanter fun, and any­way, it’s all behind us now. I promise not to attempt any Theo­phany anthems. :-o

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