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Dec. 1st, 2018 11:29 pmI can't be bothered with a proper poll, so I will simply ask: is Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
a) a happy song
b) a sad song
If you answered a), You Are Wrong. In evidence, I present this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreWsnhQwzY
I love the song, and we sing a very beautiful arrangement of it, but even though our version is somewhat happied-up, the music contradicts the cheerfulness of the words. It is not a happy song! The final chord is not a grand, major resolution! It could, reasonably, be argued that it is a hopeful song, but happy? No.
My MD likes to end our Christmas concerts with this song. We had a singout this evening, a regular annual thing that kicks off our round of Christmas concerts, and we ended it with HYMLC, and that just reminds me that, much as I like singing it, it isn't a song to end a concert with. Joy to the World would be a properly glorious finale.
Oh, well. Not my call.
a) a happy song
b) a sad song
If you answered a), You Are Wrong. In evidence, I present this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreWsnhQwzY
I love the song, and we sing a very beautiful arrangement of it, but even though our version is somewhat happied-up, the music contradicts the cheerfulness of the words. It is not a happy song! The final chord is not a grand, major resolution! It could, reasonably, be argued that it is a hopeful song, but happy? No.
My MD likes to end our Christmas concerts with this song. We had a singout this evening, a regular annual thing that kicks off our round of Christmas concerts, and we ended it with HYMLC, and that just reminds me that, much as I like singing it, it isn't a song to end a concert with. Joy to the World would be a properly glorious finale.
Oh, well. Not my call.