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Subject: O Holy Night
Date sent: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:23:16 -0500
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Hello List!

I've been asked at the last minute to add O Holy Night to our Christmas Eve
service.

When I've done it before, it's been from sheet music, not part of a
collection, and my score puts it in 4/4, complete with dotted rhythms
against the triplets in the organ. The score I was given to sing from on
Chirtsmas eve, however, has it in 12/8. It's a Schirmer edition, ed. by Carl
Deis.

I've always liked the Ave Maria-like tension of the dotted rhythms against
the triplets, but I'm curious - is there a definitive version?

Thanks,

Laura