Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: While shepherds watched their flocks by night in various melodies
• Composer:  David Warin Solomons
• Voices:  SATB or ATBB
• Sheet Music:   www.musicaneo.com/sheetmu...  
• Genres: Classical, Folk/Ethnic, Contemporary, Christmas
• It all began with the idea one morning that the "other tune" for Nahum Tate's carol "While shepherds watched" is,
  of course, the Yorkshire ditty "On Ilkley moor bar t'hat".
  Well, as the day progressed to afternoon, other tunes got added, r...  moreIt all began with the idea one morning that the "other tune" for Nahum Tate's carol "While shepherds watched" is,
  of course, the Yorkshire ditty "On Ilkley moor bar t'hat".
  Well, as the day progressed to afternoon, other tunes got added, resulting in a curious potpourri for choir and piano.
  The choir gets to sing "On Ilkla Moor", the Este psalter tune known to all, and also Auld Lang Syne.
  The second voice, in its madrigalian way, gets a sly English cadence!.
  Meanwhile, the piano also gets some sly references to "Sing a song of sixpence" and "Scotland the brave".
  
  I sang it in G (ATBB) on this video, to fit my multitrack range,
  but mixed choir versions are also available on musicaneo:
  in C (SATB) (fairly high for the sopranos)
  http://www.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-196257_while_shepherds_watched_-_in_various_melodies.html#196258
  
  and in Bflat (SATB) (fairly low for the basses)
  http://www.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-196257_while_shepherds_watched_-_in_various_melodies.html#196257
  
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