Ah, the Ordinary Time. I really enjoy these particular chants. On a rather humorous note, I did some excellent improvs (better than the ones in today’s video) all because Sr. Agatha Ozah showed up to Mass. I told her following the Mass, “Well, I figured that since you showed up to Mass, I better show off.” Sr. Agatha is quite the chant scholar, so she very much enjoyed hearing the chants improvised upon. Nothing particular to note about these improvisations, except that I have a rather long reach with my hands.
Month: January 2013
Composition: Sacred Choral and Organ
Today’s post is actually a back to back comparison of two pieces based on the Huron Carol, aka ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime. Denis Bédard, my former teacher, wrote a wonderful little setting of it for the organ. I always thought that it would sound great as a choral piece, by that I mean, Denis’ setting morphed into a choral piece. So when the English translation of the carol came into public domain, I wrote a choral version of the piece with a Denis sound in mind. Granted it has a few of my favorite tricks, but there are some egregious Bédard sounds that I put into the work. Good composers borrow, great composers steal!
Denis Bédard’s Noël Huron:
My choral setting of ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime