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In The Moon of Wintertime: Christmas Music
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An unusual Christmas album with a Celtic and folk flair from the same people who brought you Ramblin' Irishman.
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Twas in the Moon of Wintertime | 2:17 |
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Christmas in Killarney / Morrison's Jig | 2:29 |
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| 3 |
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Deck the Halls | 1:44 |
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Christmas Shoes | 2:37 |
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Joy to the World | 1:45 |
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It Came Upon a Midnight Clear | 1:57 |
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I Wonder as I Wander | 2:18 |
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| 8 |
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Good People All (The Wexford Carol) | 3:26 |
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| 9 |
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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | 2:38 |
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| 10 |
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Silent Night | 3:04 |
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| 11 |
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In Dulci Jubilo / I Saw Three Ships | 2:18 |
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| 12 |
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The Coventry Carol | 2:03 |
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The Boar's Head Carol | 1:47 |
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Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella | 1:53 |
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| 15 |
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The Holly and the Ivy | 2:40 |
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Gaudete | 3:07 |
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| 17 |
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Auld Lang Syne | 3:23 |
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| 41:26 | ||||
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Description
These selections are our favorites, from Celtic lands and times long ago around the world. Unusually done! Just Released in November 2006.
1. Twas in the Moon of Wintertime was The New Worlds First Christmas Carol written for the Hurons by Jesuit missionary Jean de Brebeuf (1593-1649). He lived and died among the Hurons. Vocal harmony by Tom Aufrance 2003
2. Christmas in Killarney / Morrisons Jig by John Redmond, James Cavanaugh and Frank Weldon 1950 Licensed by Warner Bros., Hudson Bay Music & Quartet Music. Used with permission. Morrisons is named for the Irish fiddler who popularized it.
3. Deck the Halls started out as a Welsh folk tune, and its merry holiday lyrics were probably added during the Renaissance (1500s).
4. Christmas Shoes started one morning in the crack of consciousness between asleep and awake, when with a ladys voice sang to me. By Mary Kay Aufrance 2006.
5. Joy to the World Lyrics by Isaac Watts (1719) an English preacher.
6. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear is our heartfelt expression of the wonderment of Christmas. A preacher from Massachusetts wrote it: Edmund Hamilton Sears (1849).
7. I Wonder as I Wander is a Traditional Appalachian song that was collected by John Jacob Niles, who paid a little homeless girl 25 cents for singing it to him in Murphy, North Carolina in 1933. Arrangement by Tom Aufrance 2004.
8. Good People All (The Wexford Carol) is one of the oldest Irish carols and goes back to the 1100s. Its roots go back to Enniscorthy, an old Norman settlement on the banks of the River Slaney in Country Wexford.
9. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing by Englishman Charles Wesley (1739). The tune by Felix Mendelssohn originally celebrated the invention of the printing press (1840).
10. Silent Night Austrian Josef Mohr (1816) and Franz Gruber (1818) first performed this as a duet with guitar accompaniment and Rev. Mohrs church choir joining in.
11. In Dulci Jubilo / I Saw Three Ships Heinrich Suso (1295-1366) dreamt that an angel told him to be happy and dance and then sang In Dulci Jubilo. The three ships folk tale goes back to 1100s, but this songs lyrics varied throughout England and Scotland.
12. The Coventry Carol melody is Trad. English. In 1534 Robert Croo added the lyrics for a pageant. Lully and lullay are old words for I saw, I saw!
13. The Boars Head Carol Trad. English (1521) celebrates the boars head feast!
14. Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella started as a 1300s dance tune and about 200 years later it became a French Christmas Carol. Harmony by Tom Aufrance 2003.
15. The Holly and the Ivy is a Trad. French carol that has roots in Medieval times.
16. Gaudete is Latin for Rejoice! This song comes to us from Renaissance Sweden.
17. Auld Lang Syne has evolved in Scotland since the 1400s, and Robert Burns wrote some of its most poignant lyrics in the 1790s. Our setting finds two lovers reminiscing, lamenting and joining in heartfelt sentiment. Arrangement by Tom and Mary Kay Aufrance 2006.
2006 by Tom and Mary Kay Aufrance, Carson City, NV. All Rights Reserved.
Recorded and entirely produced by Tom and Mary Kay Aufrance.
Girn - Mary Kay Aufrance, vocals, accordion, hand drum, bodhran, bells
Tom Aufrance, vocals, octave mandolin, Irish bouzouki, 6 & 12 string guitars