We took this medieval Christmas tune and turned it into a post-industrial groove anthem. This is the live performance at the 2013 Vespers at Millikin concert. Enjoy! See this score and all of my music at www.mikeemusic.com
My daughter's 8th grade choir performed this last night at their Christmas concert. I loved it enough to look it up, and as I watched this version, I am all the more impressed at how well they did. This is a really neat arrangement!
Anyone who calls this "sacrilegious", or an "atrocity" is stupid and probably doesnt understand why music exists in the first place. It exists to be changed, if we stick to tradition the whole time, we would end up ruining the purpose of music. Now ill admit, some pieces are better in their original form, but that doesnt mean that newer, or revised arrangements are all terrible, and even if some dont sound good to one person, they might sound amazing to someone else. I admire the fact that some composers such as Mr. Engelhardt see the music of old as a canvas for the new. I admire the fact that he took the risk of mixing two eras to form this piece, even if it offended some, because thats what makes a composer a composer is risk. Theres music to be made in this world, and more to be made from that.
@@survivingtheforge agree to disagree sir, no need to shit on these kids parade. just let it be and please stop using that pink cat reference, its not relevant much. this is a great arrangement but is just not your type.. now stop being rude in the comments and just appreciate this epic song, and if you dont want to do that then go away :))
Survival Of The Fittest for a channel about being tough and surviving in the wilderness, it really looks like you can't survive that long with music. it's just a song and the people singing this are just people that like it. calling them "brainwashed asshats" is like calling your viewerbase asshole sheep that follow a ridiculous idiot. neither are probably true, but please don't make anyone look at your channel like that.
I like the cosmic horroresque way that people were originally just going absolutely and unreasonably insane over a piece of music back in the good old 2010s and now everyone likes it
@@jddavis905 Cruz isn't even in the top 10 of our most vile politicans. I'm sorry the hatred in your heart possessed you in such a way that you felt the need to comment that on a Christmas video. Peace and love to you friend. I hope 2021 is the year growth and maturity happens to you/the world. Until then..... Happy New year boomer.
+Jay DeVita haha! Thanks. If you're not offending someone, then you're probably not risking anything, and you're probably not innovating, so you're probably not an artist.
Nagash Demina I don't see how arranging a hymn/carol differently does anything to tarnish the religious significance??? You should try broadening your horizons, pal.
@@Monorat It's not bad taste. Form fits function. This is a hymn, therefore sacred music, and the musical style of this arrangement, for whatever merits you might think it has in itself, is not suited to sacred music. I say this having years of experience in quite a number of musical styles, sacred and not, and although I do like many styles of secular music, I accept that not all of them can be adapted to sacred, and I don't try to shorthorn then in... because I respect both sacred and secular styles of music.
@@michaelrex6948 I mean what is the evolution of music without such pushing of the boundaries, idk if you've ever performed this piece yourself, but feeling the rhythm of this beast is really all there is to it, there is more to song than it's textual meaning and if anything this arrangement suits the text more. It's about rejoice and celebration, Christ is born and the gates are open, it's talk of bright songs, if it's textual relationship to sound your after this arrangement seemingly fits it more, there's more involvement, more ability to feel the rhythm. The original while bright, lacks that rejoice this one does, it's bland and sad.
@@michaelrex6948 and form fits function in machinery, parts, not art, art is the one subjective side to humanity and deserves it's lack of order when necessary.
@@Monorat I've not sung this piece in a liturgical context (I have sung it a lot with friends, though, and we are considering doing it this year in choir), but I've listened to just about every arrangement of it that exists. I do not agree that there is nothing to it beyond the rhythm, nor that this setting better fits the text. I find this rendition stale, uninspired, and completely out of line with the text -- it is a tune of rejoicing, and ought to be sung with power and enthusiasm, not repetitively rushed on the same boring three notes for half the time, only to cut and splice the text (that I question whether any of the singers understand) with more repetition of "gaudete" and rush through literally everything other word as though none of it had meaning or importance (worsened by them singing "gaudete" over some of the verses)... and that says nothing of how unnecessarily harsh and abrupt the change is between the (unbearably slow) tempo at which they begin and end and the (unnecessarily breakneck) speed in the middle. Nothing about this arrangement has the sobriety fitting its theme (and no, sobriety is not a contrary of jubilation; if you don't believe me, look up Viadona's Exsultate justi in Domino), and the attempt to shoehorn in a modern music style to an essentially medieval carol is painful in every way. ...and form fits function in art as well as machinery, because forasmuch as there is some degree of subjectivity in how humans express themselves, there is undeniably an objectivity in what is being expressed which plays a large part in how it is expressed (as, for just one instance, slow music is all but universally more appropriate for mournful occasions than fast music).