minstrel: A la venue de Noel (Was re:Carol of the Birds)

[Fred (Flieg) Hollander]

Flieg here --
   Hmmmm -- nice.  Since (for some reason) I was working on a 
Christmas/Twelfth Night carol, looking at this example shows that I was
clearly being conservative when I thought that six verses might be too 
many!  (Probably still are too many for anything but a command performance,
but I may keep most of them.)  Tune sounds nice, too. (At least in my
head.)  

   General question to the list. How many of you have written a Christmas
carol or are in the process of doing so?  Should we share?

At 12:39 AM 12/10/99 -0500, Vanessa Layne wrote:
>
>"Nothing exceeds like excess."  This is not the Noel I expected to be
>working on this season, but what the heck.
>
>Merrie Christesmass, Ekaterina.  What you are looking for is at:
>
>  http://www.mit.edu/~dagoura/a_la_venue_de_noel.html
>
>Plus a fully realized four-part version at:
>
>  http://www.mit.edu/~dagoura/a_la_venue_4_part.html
>
>The music is GIFs, the words in HTML.

   How did you make the music GIFs? (reply off-line to avoid OT conversation).
Since I find myself making more music recently, a convenient way to put it
on the web would be nice.

>P.S to harpers: if you *really* don't want B-flats, just take it up a
>whole step.  There would be no accidentals in A minor.

   Speaking as a harp player, thanks for the transposition 
advice. It is almost always a good thing to avoid accidentals.

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