From: Karen Mercedes
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: RE: Cantique de noel: musicologists' answers to rhythm question (long-ish)
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Interesting - my voice teacher and I had a little "tiff" over this one. I
insist on singing the song as written by Adam, and she keeps trying to
"correct" me to the "traditional" reading. Suffice it to say I'm a very
strong-willed person, and refuse to be bullied into convention!

I'm singing this - all three verses (again, for some reason, the middle
verse seems to get cut by most performers), sadly in English (but one
can't have everything) - tonight, along with my own "arrangement" of
Richard Rowland's "The Blessed Virgin's Lullaby" to the music of Peter
Warlock ("Rest Sweet Nymphs") - one of those happy coincidences where the
text of the first happens to fit perfectly on the music of the second,
which is an absolute favourite song of mine.

KM
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