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Today’s Seasonal Piece is another King’s Singers performance: “Born on a New Day”.
As with all their performances, the King’s Singers have a lovely tone quality to them. This song is also quite lovely. It is simultaneously relatively cheerful, nostalgic, and peaceful. I rather like it, and I hope you do, too.
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Technically, although it is Christmas season, it is not yet Winter. I am going to ignore that for the moment, however, and share with you a lovely (semi) seasonal piece: Rutter’s “Blow, Blow thou Winter Wind”.
It is a lovely piece that deserves more attention. The flute part especially adds to the timbre quite nicely
Enjoy.
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Anther one of my favorites is (originally) a “plainchant” piece: “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”.
This version is not (technically) plainchant, but it is lovely.
It also is easy to find in Latin, which makes it excellent soothing, not-as-distracting music.
I hope you have a good Saturday.
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I am continuing the series on “Less Common Songs for the Season.” Today’s is another non-English song: Noel Nouvelet. I discovered this one last year, actually, and it has become one of my favorite less common seasonal songs to listen to nearly repeatedly.
There are two versions I am sharing today; they each have their own, separate feel.
The first is slightly slower, more mysterious, and beautifully haunting:
The other is another King’s Singers song version.
I hope you enjoy.
Have a lovely Wednesday.
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I know it is normally bad form to interrupt a series after only a single day of it. However, this is absolutely worth it. Trust me.
A favorite music group of mine (Two Steps from Hell) released a Christmas Medley recently. (About two weeks ago, to be precise.) Thus, it is worth sharing.
It is made of more common songs. However, it is one of the best Christmas Medleys I have ever heard. (Possibly in part because they do not include “Silent Night.”)
I especially appreciate what they did with “O Holy Night.”
I hope you enjoy.
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Now it is in the Christmas Season. Therefore, music recommendations are permissible.
To start off with, there is a beautiful King’s Singers version of Gaudete. What may make it even better for you is that it is not in English. Thus, for those of you who cannot work while English-lyric pieces are playing, you can still play this in the background.
Happy First of December!
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The holiday season is almost here. However, it is not yet December 1, so I am not letting the Holiday posts start just yet. I gave a fairly lengthy explanation of that last year, so I will just direct you to that post.
I hope you have a reasonable Monday.
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This is the second Fluff Post after the American Thanksgiving of 2015. There are also two more fluff posts to go before December.
This brings up the question: When are Christmas Music recommendations acceptable?
On the one hand, it is after Thanksgiving. From what I understand, that is often an indicator of acceptable times for Christmas music and decorations.
On the other hand, it is not yet December. December 1 is another reasonable time to use for a gauge of when it is acceptable to start Christmas Season Festivities.
I am as of yet unsure which way I fall.
What do you think?
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I think I may be obligated to inform you that there is a new Marvel trailer out.
It is for the upcoming Captain America: Civil War movie.
The video is below.
I am not particularly thrilled about this. It looks like it will once again be a ham-handed political commentary that most people will not even recognize, per usual with the Captain America movies.
Take “Winter SOldier”, for example. That was clearly a discussion of the tradeoffs between moderate Liberal Internationalism, and over-the-top, taken-to-its-extremes to the point of almost being a Straw Man representation of International Realism. (In case you could not tell, I found that movie annoying. However, I have only seen it once. It is possible that it is not as bad (philosophically speaking) as I am remembering.)
Thus, my obligatory presentation of the trailer. I am not especially excited for this movie; I expect that there will once more be unfair, ham-handed misrepresentations of political theory for the purpose of exploring Hollywood’s philosophical preferences. Worse, people are going to love it.
Have a nice Friday.
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So, yesterday was a good day for trailers.
Really, we agree on this?
Yep! The new Finding Dory trailer came out!
Ah… That is not quite the one I was thinking of. For you see, the new Jessica Jones trailer also came out. (Warning: This trailer is not as “child friendly” as the Finding Dory trailer.)
Uh… Yeah, that’s definitely not going to be as kid-friendly as Finding Dory. I mean, they put David Tennant in purple?
Yes…? Why is that a problem?
I don’t know. It just seems… odd.
Well, that might be because he is the villain.
he is therefore supposed to look a bit disturbing. Or at least villainous. The purple helps with that.
…Whatever. Anyway, Finding Dory is also coming out at some point. And hence the trailer. Trailers. Whatever.
Have a lovely Wednesday!