{"id":2548,"date":"2019-11-16T02:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T00:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2021-01-03T01:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T23:09:46","slug":"adeste-fideles-o-come-all-ye-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=2548","title":{"rendered":"Adeste Fideles &#8211; O Come, All Ye Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Download brass quartet sheet music: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Adeste-Fideles.zip\">Adeste Fideles &#8211; O Come, All Ye Faithful<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that &#8220;Adeste Fideles &#8211; O Come, All Ye Faithful&#8221; is also part of the compilation <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=2990\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2990\">Christmas Reharmonized, Volume 1 &amp; 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what it sounds like when played on a piano:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Adeste-Fideles-Take-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Story Behind<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So far I only reharmonized Austrian or German Christmas Carols that came to me somewhat naturally. E.g., I knew which song to do next without spending too much time thinking. This time around I went to youtube and spent a whole night browsing interpretations of Christmas Carols. That&#8217;s how I stumbled across &#8220;O Come, All Ye Faithful&#8221;. Which, actually is the favorite Christmas Carol of one of the trumpet players I usually play with on Christmas Eve. I especially enjoyed the version of some musicians of the fabulous WDR big band:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Come, all ye faithful | WDR BIG BAND\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCgBxzHDjUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have such a nice selection of instruments at my disposal. The boundary conditions I work with are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Four instruments: Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2, Trombone\/Euphonium, Tuba.<\/li><li>I work with avid music hobbyist, who are usually quite challenged by my arrangements and might even discard them as too weird.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I work with what I have. To address the latter condition I usually start my arrangements with a plain, old-school version of the tune. This allows the ensemble to make a decision to skip the reharmonized part, while not entirely discarding the arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the reharmonization I did not want to reuse the drop-2 approach from previous arrangements.  The first four bars came quite naturally, especially the chord progression. The rhythmic variation of the melody I borrowed from the WDR big band video. After playing around with several options for bar 5, I discovered the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/So_What_chord\">So-What Voicings<\/a>. As I only have four voices, one tone is missing for a complete So-What Chord, but it&#8217;s close enough. Also rhythmically I borrowed from Miles Davis&#8217; original <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zqNTltOGh5c?t=13\">So What<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that point on I thought: Hey, let&#8217;s deploy some more <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upper_structure\">upper structures<\/a> and put them at the core of the reharmonization. I don&#8217;t know why, but for upper structures I especially like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_inversion\">second inversions<\/a>. So that&#8217;s what I used: A triad in second inversion sitting atop of a base note (the four voice limitation does not allow for more). For the chorus I used similar voicings as for the verse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last two bars I had to redo multiple times. At the beginning I had a harmonically complex version. However, this lead to a very harsh transition when playing the &#8220;Da Capo&#8221;. So I went back to a basic II7sus4-V7b9-I cadence, which bridges yet another upper structure cord with a straight major chord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s all to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download brass quartet sheet music: Adeste Fideles &#8211; O Come, All Ye Faithful. Please note that &#8220;Adeste Fideles &#8211; O Come, All Ye Faithful&#8221; is also part of the compilation Christmas Reharmonized, Volume 1 &amp; 2. Here&#8217;s what it sounds like when played on a piano: The Story Behind So far I only reharmonized Austrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_and_stuff","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p15PpI-F6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}