A light-hearted thread....

[AscribeUntoTheLad]

I was wondering whether we could play the word association game. With pieces of choral music.

I'll start: Blessed city, heavenly Salem. I'm sure there are lots of things you can do with that.

[Lizzie]

I was wondering whether we could play the word association game. With pieces of choral music.

I'll start: Blessed city, heavenly Salem. I'm sure there are lots of things you can do with that.

Witches!
Bit obscure but it always makes me think of them!

[AscribeUntoTheLad]

I was actually hoping that we could do it using only pieces of music..... :winkeye:
so would you mind changing that to the Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique?

[Lizzie]

I was actually hoping that we could do it using only pieces of music..... :winkeye:
so would you mind changing that to the Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique?
Feel free!

[decantor]

I was actually hoping that we could do it using only pieces of music..... :winkeye:
so would you mind changing that to the Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique?
I'm not certain I have the rules right (sacred choral music?), but my 'association' would be ---

Dum transisset (sabbatum)

[Caliban]

I'm not certain I have the rules right (sacred choral music?), but my 'association' would be ---

Dum transisset (sabbatum)

Silent (dum(b)) Night

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Silent (dum(b)) Night
Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Ete. (Well, at least it's vocal.)

[mercia]

Delius - Two songs to be sung of a summer night on the water

[Norfolk Born]

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John: Summer Nights

[Anna]

Sumer Is Icumen In :winkeye:

[french frank]

Sumer Is Icumen In :winkeye:In nomine Jesu

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cantata 147) - Bach

[mangerton]

Turn Back, O Man, Forswear thy Foolish Ways - Holst

afterthought - good hymn for a wedding?

[Norfolk Born]

These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

[Anna]

Combining mangerton's thought about the Holst being good for a wedding with Ofca's suggestion:

The Wise and Foolish Virgins - Martinu (it is opera thus choral!)

[mangerton]

"The Wise Virgins" - Bach orch Walton. The ballet.

(Is my memory at fault, or were these pieces not used to introduce R3 before start-up each morning, 30-40 years ago?)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"The Wise Virgins" - Bach orch Walton. The ballet.

(Is my memory at fault, or were these pieces not used to introduce R3 before start-up each morning, 30-40 years ago?)

That's not strictly choral, but to rescue it:

Bach: Cantata BWV 208 ("Sheep May Safely Graze")

[Anna]

Slightly confused as to the connection between virgins and sheep? But, nonetheless:
Songs of the Auvergne - Ound' onorèn gorda? Where shall we go to graze?

[Tapiola]

Le Ranz des Vaches.

[Norfolk Born]

Antonio de Cabezón: Differencias sobre las vacas

[Anna]

Navaez - Guárdame las vacas

Are we running a livestock market here? :smiley:

[mangerton]

Are we running a livestock market here? :smiley:

Oh yes! :biggrin:

John Farmer - Fair Phyllis (I saw sitting all alone, feeding her flock near to the mountainside)

Anna- msg 18 - "Sheep may safely graze" is a movement in the Walton suite.

[Anna]

Schumann: The Happy Farmer opus 68 no 10

[gainasbass]

JT -- The Lamb

[Norfolk Born]

The Lambeth Walk :smiley:

[Anna]

JT -- The Lamb

Blake - Songs of Innocence - The Lamb

Oh, yummy with mint sauce

sorry Ofca,clashed with you!

[Norfolk Born]

No need to apologize!
Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.

[mangerton]

Wagner - Ring cycle

As all the best teachers say, I'll leave the reason as an exercise for the student.

[Anna]

Wagner - Ring cycle

As all the best teachers say, I'll leave the reason as an exercise for the student.

Ring Around the Moon Harry Partch

[Roehre]

Ring Around the Moon Harry Partch

there must be some Moon light in this sonata, Ludwig

[Anna]

Has the Perrier gone straight to my head?
But you could have said no couldn't you
I was boring, from those new houses

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Light of Life - Elgar

[mercia]

Lux Aeterna - Ligeti

[mangerton]

O Nata Lux - Tallis

[Norfolk Born]

'My luck's like a button, I can't stop pushing it'.

[DracoM]

I have a feeling that this is not quite what the OP meant.

[Roehre]

To mean or not to mean, that's the question

[doversoul]

To mean or not to mean, that's the question

Mein teurer Heiland, lass dich fragen: St John Passion

Oh no!! Not another Associations thread… more things get left undone
:biggrin:

[Caliban]

Mein teurer Heiland, lass dich fragen: St John Passion


It was a lover and his lass (Finzi)

:whistle:

[Norfolk Born]

Long-haired lover from Liverpool :whistle::whistle:

[mercia]

Janacek - How strange my lover is

[mangerton]

Morley - It was a Lover and his Lasse

[Norfolk Born]

My Love Is But a Lassie Yet

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Lass with the Delicate Air

[french frank]

The constant challenge of this thread is to try to get it back on to sacred/religious choral works. And just as you come up with something, someone else nips in first .... (I'll shelve 'A God and yet a Man' for another time :sadface:)

[french frank]

The Lass with the Delicate AirIch lasse dich nicht.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The constant challenge of this thread is to try to get it back on to sacred/religious choral works. And just as you come up with something, someone else nips in first .... (I'll shelve 'A God and yet a Man' for another time :sadface:) Um er yes! But the first posting only says choral - nothing about sacred/religious. And a choir can sing anything. :erm:

[french frank]

Um er yes! But the first posting only says choral - nothing about sacred/religious. And a choir can sing anything. :erm:I cannot deny it :smiley:. It was merely a personal challenge to do so, since that was where it started, so:

Ich lasse dich nicht (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIqkwDk848I)

[Roehre]

Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen (which is choral and sacred :) )

[Magnificat]

The Duteous Day Now Closeth ( hymn - tune Innsbruck) very suitable choice for CE.

VCC

[mercia]

The Duteous Day Now Closeth

Now thank we all our God - Nun danket alle Gott

[mangerton]

All People that on Earth do Dwell - the RVW arrangement with all available trumpets - my favourite musical direction. :cool2:

[Norfolk Born]

All in the April Evening (I hope that's sufficiently choral AND light-hearted :smiley:)

[Tevot]

Abide with me (eventide) Choral certainly - light-hearted? hmmm ... perhaps if your team wins the FA Cup Final :winkeye:

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[mangerton]

S S Wesley - Wash me Throughly

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

S S Wesley - Wash me Throughly
Through the Night of Doubt & Sorrow

[mercia]

Elgar - Doubt not thy father's care

[Magnificat]

Father Hear The Prayer We Offer

[Magnificat]

I have just realised that we can be back where we started in two goes! I'll leave it up to others to finish it off.

VCC

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Millennium Prayer (Well it is 5.25 a.m. :whistle:)

[mercia]

Mendelssohn - Hear my prayer

[mangerton]

Purcell - Hear my Prayer

[Roehre]

Beethoven: Vom Herzen, möge es zum Herzen gehen (motto Missa solemnis)

[mercia]

Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen BWV66 - JSB

[mangerton]

Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV 147 JSB

[Y Mab Afradlon]

On Ilkla Moor Baht T'at

[Magnificat]

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night - sometimes sung to the tune of On Ilkley Moor Bar Tat

[mangerton]

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night - sometimes sung to the tune of On Ilkley Moor Bar Tat

Yes, I'm afraid that's true. :yikes:

The Shepherds' Farewell - Berlioz

[David Underdown]

Yes, I'm afraid that's true. :yikes:

[it's actually been sung to that tune longer than what we'd now consider the "normal" tune, I'm not actually sure when the Ilkley Moor Words were first used (not published until 1916 according to Wiki, but probably earlier than 1877, while the tune, a Methodist hymn tune, was written in 1805 by a Canterbury shoemaker]

[EnemyoftheStoat]

[it's actually been sung to that tune longer than what we'd now consider the "normal" tune, I'm not actually sure when the Ilkley Moor Words were first used (not published until 1916 according to Wiki, but probably earlier than 1877, while the tune, a Methodist hymn tune, was written in 1805 by a Canterbury shoemaker]

(And it's much more fun than the dirge which is the "normal" tune.)

Back on track - Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (LvB)

[Anna]

O still, small voice of calm! :erm:

[Magnificat]

Shouldn't this really be Dear Lord and Father of Mankind?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Elgar: Une Voix dans le Desert

[mangerton]

Poulenc - La Voix Humaine

[doversoul]

Wachtet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645

[Norfolk Born]

Frühlingsstimmenwalzer (Strauß)

[Roehre]

Seid nüchtern und Wachet (Faust-Cantate) Schnittke

[Anna]

The Theotokos, Ever Vigilant in Prayer (Rachmaninov)

[AscribeUntoTheLad]

Vigilate (Byrd)

[mercia]

Missa vigilate - Egil Hovland

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Missa Solemnis - Beethoven (I know - it's a bit obvious)

[mangerton]

Missa Papae Marcelli - Palestrina

[Norfolk Born]

Missa Luba

[Roehre]

La mariée mise à nu :doh: par ses célibataires (Duchamps) :biggrin:

[mercia]

Szegedi mise (Szeged Mass) opus 35 - Erno Dohnanyi

[Anna]

Missa Luba

African Sanctus - Fanshawe

Whoops! Came in too late - ignore this!

[mangerton]

Missa Salisburgensis - Bieber

[Magnificat]

Missa Albanus - Robert Fayrfax

[muticus]

Missa Salisburgensis - Bieber

Gosh - I never realised Justin had come on so well with his composing :winkeye:

[mercia]

John Dunstable - Albanus roseo rutilat

[Anna]

Aurora Lucis Rutilat

[mangerton]

When Morning Gilds the Skies

[EdgeleyRob]

ELO - Mr Blue Sky

[weston752]

The Bluebird - Stanford

[Magnificat]

The Birds - Warlock

[mercia]

William Walton - King Herod and the Cock

[Y Mab Afradlon]

Purcell - When the cock begins to crow

[mangerton]

Thomas Ravenscroft - The Three Ravens

[Norfolk Born]

The Three Craws (traditional Scottish children's song)

[Tapiola]

Three is a Magic Number - De La Soul.

[muticus]

Walton - The Twelve

[mercia]

Joys Seven

[EdgeleyRob]

Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye

[Norfolk Born]

Britten - Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo

[doversoul]

Seven Last Words from the Cross: James MacMillan

[Magnificat]

Three Prayers of Deitrich Boenhoffer - Philip Moore.

[mangerton]

Trois Chansons - Ravel

[Y Mab Afradlon]

Chanson D'Amour Manhattan Transfer – (Rat tat tat tat tat)

[Magnificat]

Chanson de Nuit

[EdgeleyRob]

Patti Smith - Because the Night

[doversoul]

Audivi media nocte: Thomas Tallis

[muticus]

Te lucis ante terminum - Balfour Gardiner (and many others)

Te lucis ante terminum,
rerum Creator, poscimus,
ut solita clementia,
sis praesul ad custodiam.

Procul recedant somnia,
et noctium phantasmata:
hostemque nostrum comprime,
ne polluantur corpora.

Praesta, Pater omnipotens,
per Iesum Christum Dominum,
qui tecum in perpetuum
regnat cum Sancto Spiritu.

(although out of interest the 1974 'agreed text' replaces the - relevant- 2nd stanza with:
Te corda nostra somnient,/ te per soporem sentiant,/ tuamque semper gloriam/ vicina luce concinant. Vitam salubrem tribue,/ nostrum calorem refice,/ taetram noctis caliginem/ tua collustret claritas.- blatant revisionism in my humble opinion!)

[Magnificat]

Shepherd Fennell's Dance Balfour Gardiner.

[Anna]

John Taverner: Christe Jesu pastor bone (Jesus Christ, Good Shepherd)

[EdgeleyRob]

The Shepherd on the Rock

[mangerton]

The Lord's my Shepherd - lots of settings - you choose

[Norfolk Born]

The Shepherds' Farewell from 'L'Enfance du Christ'

[muticus]

Naylor - Vox Dicentis

"Sicut pastor ....,
in brachio suo congregabit agnos"

BTW what a fantastic Prom from the NYO - it is good to know that the future of decent music is assured in the hands of these brilliant young musicians. Despite the recent unedifying posturing by members of this forum - I hope we can ALL agree on the fact that we are SO lucky to have such fantastic young people in our choirs and orchestras.

[EdgeleyRob]

Ultravox - Hymn

[Norfolk Born]

Hymn to a Him (My Fair Lady)

[mangerton]

My Beloved Spake - Purcell

[Magnificat]

My Beloved Spake -Hadley

[The cloak of anonymity]

Vox Dicentis, Clama - Naylor

[muticus]

Sorry my dear old thing - already had that - passim....

[Anna]

"God Spake Sometime in Visions" - John Blow

[Roehre]

Visions d'Amen - Messiaen

[Magnificat]

Can I just check the rules for this thread.

Does it end when no one can follow on or when we end up back where it started with Blessed City Heavenly Salem?

VCC

[mangerton]

I don't think those rules were ever specified, Magnificat. OTOH, as pointed out above, we have had one or two "repeats". Also, the original brief was CHORAL music, which the Messiaen certainly isn't.

However, as it's there -

Amen Chorus - Handel

[Anna]

The Sevenfold Amen - John Stainer

[AscribeUntoTheLad]

Well, when I started this, I wasn't really expecting it to go on so long.

But I think it goes on until we get back to the beginning. Or, alternatively, until everyone gets bored of it.

[mangerton]

I'll sing "Amen" to that. (Dresden, arr John Stainer)

[Magnificat]

God So Loved The World - Stainer

[EdgeleyRob]

The Isley Brothers - Harvest for the World

[mangerton]

O Saviour of the World - John Goss

[gainasbass]

Salvator mundi - John Blow

[mercia]

Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis

[mangerton]

Set by whom, mercia? There's quite a wide choice, and I wouldn't like to add the same one that you're thinking of.

[mercia]

one that you're thinking of.

I wasn't thinking of any particular one, but let's say Haydn in the Missa in tempore belli

are we now going to have umpteen Agnus Dei-s?

[Anna]

Or, Worthy is the Lamb - Handel ? :winkeye: Just carry on and ignore that!

[mangerton]

I wasn't thinking of any particular one, but let's say Haydn in the Missa in tempore belli

are we now going to have umpteen Agnus Dei-s?

That could be a whole new thread on its own. I was thinking "Nelson", myself. :smiley:

It's probably better as Anna suggests to crack on, so:

The Lamb - Tavener

(We may have had this, in which case, my apologies. :blush:)

[Anna]

Lambs - sheep - mutton??

Jean Mouton - Missa "Dictes moy toutes vos pensées" :winkeye:

[EdgeleyRob]

David Bowie - The Jean Genie

[Norfolk Born]

I Dream of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair

[EdgeleyRob]

Elgar - The Light of Life

[Norfolk Born]

Lead Kindly Light Amid The Encircling Gloom (it's just started to rain here)

[mercia]

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes of life of gathering gloom
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb

O star of wonder, star of night ...................

[choralscholar 91]

Lo how a rose ever Blooming (any composer/arrangement)

[mangerton]

Lo! Star-led chiefs - Wm Crotch

[Magnificat]

Lo He Comes With Clouds Descending

[choralscholar 91]

the clouds veil - Liam Lawton

[Norfolk Born]

I'm Painting The Clouds With Sunshine (Johnny Marvin)

[muticus]

I never thought I would say this but..... Shine, Jesus, Shine!

[mangerton]

Now that the sun hath veiled his light - Purcell

[choralscholar 91]

Now thank we all our God

[french frank]

Totus Tuus

[gainasbass]

Tu es Petrus (say, Palestrina)

[choralscholar 91]

tu es pastor ovium (Byrd)

[mercia]

Quem vidistis pastores - Poulenc

[mangerton]

Videntes stellam - Lassus

[choralscholar 91]

We three Kings (Star of wonder)

[mangerton]

The Three Kings - Peter Cornelius

[gainasbass]

Eastern monarchs, sages three (W.S. Vann)

[mangerton]

Conserva me Domine - Osbert Parsley

[EdgeleyRob]

James / protect me

[Norfolk Born]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcEo60Qyb4

[Anna]

God Protect our Emperor Francis - Haydn

[mangerton]

Die Schoepfung - Haydn

[Anna]

Salvation is Created - Pavel Tchesnokov

[bach736]

String Quartet No.2, 'From the Monkey Mountains' - Pavel Haas.