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- John McCabe
Upon the High Midnight (1973)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Scoring varies for each of the three carols
- Organ (optional)
- SATB
- Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
- 8 min
- Anon.
Programme Note
A little child there is y-born (Anon. 15th century)
Dormi, Jesu (Anon.)
In Bethlehem, that fair city (Anon. 14th century)
Upon the High Midnight is a triptych of Christmas carols composed at different times during the 1960s and early 1970s. The first carol is a gentle, rather modal setting of anonymous 15th century words. The second, Dormi, Jesu, was the latest to be composed and is a slightly more chromatic setting of an anonymous Latin text. In Bethlehem, that fair city was originally written for a concert at the Liverpool Institute High School (my old school) in 1960, and was revised for inclusion in this group - it is livelier in mood, with a text derived from anonymous 14th century words. All the carols are unaccompanied, but there is an optional organ accompaniment for the last.
Dormi, Jesu (Anon.)
In Bethlehem, that fair city (Anon. 14th century)
Upon the High Midnight is a triptych of Christmas carols composed at different times during the 1960s and early 1970s. The first carol is a gentle, rather modal setting of anonymous 15th century words. The second, Dormi, Jesu, was the latest to be composed and is a slightly more chromatic setting of an anonymous Latin text. In Bethlehem, that fair city was originally written for a concert at the Liverpool Institute High School (my old school) in 1960, and was revised for inclusion in this group - it is livelier in mood, with a text derived from anonymous 14th century words. All the carols are unaccompanied, but there is an optional organ accompaniment for the last.