pc files using the Personal Composer Demo.
SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - use with flute (.pc).SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - SATB voice parts only (.pc).SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Flute (.pc).SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - with flute (.pc).SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - use with flute (.pc).SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - SATB voice parts only (.pc).SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Flute (.pc).SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - with flute.SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - use with flute.SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - SATB voice parts only.SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Flute.SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - with flute.SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - use with flute.SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - SATB voice parts only.SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Flute.If you need other keys, you are welcome to transpose it using the Personal Composer Demo. The scores labeled SATB 1 and SATB 2 in different keys, but otherwise identical. The harmonies she sings are adapted from the SATB score. Obviously you’ll need two voices for a live presentation. Heather’s demo for this song is of the “don’t try this at home” variety–or rather, don’t try this alone. At a quick tempo, with a flute intro and obbligato for the last verse, it passed the “fun” test: my husband whistled it for a week. So I played around with it, and found that it readily fell into 6/8 meter. As Marianne Dashwood so aptly put it, “…there is a something wanting.” It has great words (in what other song do you get to sing “seraph” and “forthwith” in the same line?) and the melody suits the lyrics well, but… ho hum. One Christmas as our congregation sang “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night,” I wondered why this long-familiar carol had never been one of my favorites. Easy mistake to make, fair enough.Traditional tune with lyrics by Nahum Tate.Īrrangement and additional lyrics by Sally DeFord. Yes, Chuck D, one of the greatest rappers of his time, is worried about the unfair incarceration and execution of large bovids. She’s 40, but this was only last week.Ī friend at school thought the Michael Jackson lyrics were ‘Annie are you wonky, Annie are you wonky, are you wonky Annie?’ and who was I to correct her joyously imagining MJ’s concern for his asymmetric friend? I once read that someone thought Public Enemy’s ‘Death row, what a brother knows’ was ‘Death row, water buffalo’. In the U.S., the tune most widely paired with Tate’s words is one adapted from a melody in the opera Siroë, King of Persia, composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759. Her daughter, my cousin, thought Don Quixote by Nick Kershaw was ‘Donkey Horsey’. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night was sung to a wide variety of tunes over 100 have been identified in printed sources, and there were probably more.
My auntie sang ‘Well it’s a niii-ce, dayyyy, toDAY’ to the tune of Raspberry Beret, which says a lot about my family and the fact they thought musical genius and famous super-freak Prince could be so basic and concerned with the weather. They never cease to amuse when you wheel out the family favourites. Is there anything funnier than a misheard lyric? I don’t think so. No, it doesn’t make sense, but we didn’t know what tidings or kin meant, because we were four, and who uses the words ‘tidings’ or ‘kin’ the other 11 months of the year? No one, and the Amish, that’s who. Same as we all thought it was ‘good tidy we bring, to you and your king’. It was clearly while shepherds wash their flocks by night, because obviously you have to keep your sheep clean, especially if Jesus is coming. All together now: While shepherds wash their socks by night…! I remember hearing people sing this as a joke when I was a kid and thinking it was absolutely absurd.
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