A setting for four equal voices of the parody by Rev George Strong on Longfellow's Hiawatha poem. The music is almost, but not quite, a canon... Versions are available in B flat mixolydian and in C mixolydian. (ie major with flattened 7th) When ...  onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">A setting for four equal voices of the parody by Rev George Strong on Longfellow's Hiawatha poem. The music is almost, but not quite, a canon... Versions are available in B flat mixolydian and in C mixolydian. (ie major with flattened 7th) When he killed the Mudjokivis, Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outside. He, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side outside; He, to get the cold side outside, Put the warm side fur side inside. That's why he put the fur side inside, Why he put the skin side outside, Why he turned them inside outside  onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

parody of the Rudolph the rednosed reindeer song, new original words and music, sung in English and German

Many years ago David Marsh kindly created a video for this work, composed and sung by me as the multitrack one-man choir dwschorale. The video is based on a caricature of me as a choirboy. This is an improved version using that video but following the w...  onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">Many years ago David Marsh kindly created a video for this work, composed and sung by me as the multitrack one-man choir dwschorale. The video is based on a caricature of me as a choirboy. This is an improved version using that video but following the words more clearly and also including the words on screen. The choir sings the 12 days of Christmas but it all goes horribly (or hilariously) wrong.  

Hari Bouriquet (Gee up little donkey) Second version - with tentative translation in the video itself This is a satirical madrigal mocking the Catholics of the timebased on a madrigal allegedly composed by Claudin de Sermisy.... (actually I find this ...  onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">Hari Bouriquet (Gee up little donkey) Second version - with tentative translation in the video itself This is a satirical madrigal mocking the Catholics of the timebased on a madrigal allegedly composed by Claudin de Sermisy.... (actually I find this hard to believe since he was a good Catholic, but maybe someone has further information?)... The original is partly in Renaissance French of the court and partly in a dialect of that period. Performed by the dwsChorale (a one-man choir)  

Contest performance of the Nizhny Novgorod State University Choir (NNSU Choir) at the International Festival of University and Academic Choirs "VESNUSHKA". Yaroslavl, Russian Federation, 2013.