Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: Zither Carol transposed for men's voices
• Composer:  Malcolm Sargent
• Voices:  AATBarB
• Genres: A cappella, Christmas, Virtual Choir
• This is a transposed version of Malcolm Sargent's "Zither Carol". It is based on a Czech Furiant (a fast dance with metre shifting between duple and triple time) called "Sedlák, sedlák", which was also sung as a light-hearted and frolicsome song gently po...  moreThis is a transposed version of Malcolm Sargent's "Zither Carol". It is based on a Czech Furiant (a fast dance with metre shifting between duple and triple time) called "Sedlák, sedlák", which was also sung as a light-hearted and frolicsome song gently poking fun at a corpulent farmer.
  
  The words of the carol are by Malcolm Sargent himself.
  
  
  Girls and boys, leave your toys. make no noise,
  Kneel at His crib and worship Him.
  At Thy shrine, Child divine, we are Thine,
  Our Saviour's here.
  
  "Hallelujah!" the church bells ring,
  "Hallelujah!" the angels sing,
  "Hallelujah!" from ev'rything.
  All must draw near.
  
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