About Jarrods arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. This is part of the Advanced series and contains fewer difficult passages. bit.ly/117GN3O (Sheet music available at musicnotes.) This English Christmas carol’s original author is unknown and the carol first appeared with lyrics in 1833 in a collection of seasonal carols assembled by William B. Sandys. It recounts the visits of the shepherds to the Christ child as told in Luke 2:8-20 and is one of the most frequently arranged carols. This new arrangement hints at the original carol’s somewhat dark Aeolian mode (natural minor scale), but it brings refreshing re-harmonization by switching between the Aeolian and the Modern Dorian modes. The piece leaves the listener with a haunting feeling of completion as the final chord rests not on the tonic of the new key (F#), but on the bVI (flat VI). This D major chord serves as the pivot chord between the two keys, F# minor and G (harmonic) minor and would be the final chord of a half-cadence in the original key.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:54:56 +0000
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