O Holy Night
“He appeared
and the soul felt its worth.”
My arrangement of the French religious song by Adolphe Adam.
Again, preferring silence to constant motion.
I’ll confess that I was not inclined to record this piece. My husband Alan really wanted it included on The Rebirth of Light, but I resisted because I had first heard it sung by a soprano with super-warbly vibrato. I thought the song was sort of tacky, although I did recognize that the tackiness came from the singing and not from the music itself.
When I explained all this to Alan, he pointed out that any arrangement I created would never be “tacky” and that it wouldn’t have warbly vibrato either!
I promised to play with it and just hear what I could create. I started with a sort of American Methodist hymnal 4–part chordal arrangement. And then the rolled chords appeared and away I went!
Sheet music for this arrangement of O Holy Night is available here.
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