Category: tracks and albums by me

Our Cheerful Voices let us raise

Byartsyhonker December 22, 2013 0 Comments
Cheerful Voices by Kathryn Rose Our cheerful voices let us raise, And sing a parting song; Although I'm with you now, my friends, I can't be with you long: For I must go and leave you all, It fills my heart with pain; Although we part, perhaps, in tears, I hope we'll meet again. A final shape-note tune to end Cheerful Voices. If you're still short of Christmas presents, you can either download...

Cheerful Voices: Hark! Hark! Glad tidings charm our ears

Byartsyhonker December 21, 2013 0 Comments
Hark! hark! glad tidings charm our ears, Angelic music fills the spheres; Earth spreads the sound with decent mirth, A God, a God is born on earth! A God is born! the valleys cry; A God is born! the hills reply; Evening repeats to wondering morn, A God, a God on earth is born! Another lovely bit of shape note music from Southern Harmony. I think this would lend itself to trumpet instrumentation...

Cheerful Voices: What wondrous love is this?

Byartsyhonker December 20, 2013 1 Comment
What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, What wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul, To bear the dreadful curse for my soul! When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down, When I was sinking down, sinking down, When I was sinking down beneath God's righteous frown, Christ laid...

Cheerful Voices: Dou way Robyn/Sancta Mater

Byartsyhonker December 19, 2013 1 Comment
Dou way, Robyn, the child wile weepe; dou way Robyn. Sancta mater gratiae, stella claritatis visita nos hodie plena pietatis. Veni, vena veniae mox incarceratis, solamen angustiae, fons suavitatis. Recordare, mater Christi, quam amare tu flevisti; juxta crucem tu stetisti, suspirando viso tristi O, Maria, flos regalis, inter omnes nulla talis; Tuo nato specialis nostrae carnis parce malis O,...

Cheerful Voices: She moved through the fair

Byartsyhonker December 18, 2013 0 Comments
My young love said to me, "My mother won't mind And my father won't slight you for your lack of kine" And she stepped away from me and this she did say: It will not be long, love, till our wedding day." As she stepped away from me and she moved through the fair And fondly I watched her move here and move there And then she turned homeward with one star awake Like the swan in the evening moves...

Cheerful Voices: The Song of the Vineyard

Byartsyhonker December 17, 2013 0 Comments
Cheerful Voices by Kathryn Rose My truelove had a vineyard upon a hill so high, He dug the ground and planted the best that you can buy, He hollowed out a winepress and built a wall and tower; At harvest-time he gathered but every grape was sour. Now find the guilty party, you masters of the law; My truelove in his vineyard could not have laboured more. A vineyard so ungrateful with grapes so...