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Sans Day Carol
Voice Junction
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for SATB unaccompanied
Pete Churchill's thrilling arrangement of this traditional Cornish carol has a gentle South African feel and features 'scat' singing and chromatic shifts in harmony. The traditional melody in 6/8 time is set against a jazz-waltz rhythm, giving a contemporary twist to this Christmas classic.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
Confidence will be the name of the game if your singers take on Pete Churchill's Sans Day Carol. They will need to be able to subdivide six quavers into 3/4 or 6/8 and switch constantly between the two (anyone with a feel for jazz or swing will have no trouble here.) Variety is achieved by changes in tempo and some interesting harmonic diversions - the home key of E flat is briefly abandoned for visits to G and B majors. This piece is really well crafted;
the vocal ranges are easy and there is not a divisi in sight. The composer is, among other things, professor of jazz composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Evidently. * Jeremy Jackman, Choir & Organ, September 2019 *