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08 Nov 01 - 02:24 PM (#588421) Subject: Welcome Yule! From: Cas I heard this once on radio done by coventry choir..its beautiful..not run of the mill xmas shmaltz( nothing wrong with shmaltz.. but other joyous stuff can blow you away) I d like lyrics tune and any idea if its on a record somewhere..... |
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08 Nov 01 - 02:34 PM (#588425) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: Sorcha Here's your chance, guys. I can't find it. I found several new poems with the phrase in it, several CD's to buy with the song on it, and a listing attributed to Trad........but no lyrics. |
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08 Nov 01 - 02:50 PM (#588450) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: MMario at least two version out there - I found reference to a recent composition - and to a 15th century carol -= but didn't find any lyrics. |
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08 Nov 01 - 05:44 PM (#588544) Subject: Lyr Add: WELCOME YULE From: Malcolm Douglas WELCOME YULE
(Text 15th Century; spelling modernised. Tune by S.H. Nicholson.)
Welcome Yule, thou merry man,
Welcome be ye, Stephen and John,
Welcome be ye, good New Year,
Welcome be ye, Candlemas,
Welcome be ye that are here,
in fere: together.
From The Oxford Book of Carols, ed. Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw. The carol appears in "Sloane MS. 2593, of the beginning of the 15th century or temp. Henry VI. Another version in the Bodleian Douce MS. 302, the collection of John Awdlay, the blind chaplain, c.1430, printed in Sandys Christmastide, 1852."
The tune is modern, and was composed by Sydney Hugo Nicholson (1875-1947), sometime organist at Westminster Abbey and a prolific composer of church music. Midis made from the notation in the Oxford book will go to Mudcat Midis, and can be heard in the meantime via the South Riding Folk Network site:
Welcome Yule Full arrangement, played through twice to incorporate the slightly different final bars. I assume that the italicised section is intended to be repeated as a chorus, but I'm not much used to hymn books and may have misunderstood. |
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09 Nov 01 - 12:57 PM (#589054) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: GUEST,JohnB I can't remember where exactly I got it from but you are correct about the italicized "Wolcum Yule" being repeated at the end of each verse. I have not looked/listened to the versions posted, the version we did had a different ending for the last time the chorus was repeated. The only other bit we did different was instead of "lief" in the third verse we sang "beloved". I seem to recollect someone telling me recently that this song is on a Rankin Family Christmas CD. JohnB |
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13 May 02 - 02:27 AM (#709942) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: masato sakurai The Middle English text is in Richard Leighton Greene, The Early English Carols, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1977, no. 7B [pp. 3-4]; John Audelay version is no. 7A). Also composed by John Joubert (on Bristol Bach Choir, Welcome Yule); and by Peter Maxwell Davies (on Elizabethan Singers, Sir Cristemas). The words are quoted in Chambers' The Book of Days, vol. II, p. 735 (Click here). ~Masato |
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17 Nov 04 - 02:45 PM (#1330223) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: Q (Frank Staplin) The midi links with the posting of "Welcome Yule" by Malcolm Douglas cannot be used; the tune is absent from Mudcat midis, and the South Riding Folk Network can't be reached (temporary, I hope!). Is the midi the same as the one at Hymns and Carols of Christmas?: Welcome Yule |
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17 Nov 04 - 03:00 PM (#1330239) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: MMario the mudcat midi page link to the Welcome Yule midi works for me,Q. Did you use the link at the top of the page? or one of the others. |
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17 Nov 04 - 07:08 PM (#1330496) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: Malcolm Douglas The South Riding site is temporarily offline; I expect that the server company are fiddling about again. As a rule, it's more reliable of access than the Mudcat! I still live in hope that, one day, somebody will set the MIME types on the Mudcat server so that midis can be played, as they used to be, via non-Microsoft browsers. |
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17 Nov 04 - 10:37 PM (#1330673) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: Ron Davies It's possible, if Cas is still looking for what he or she heard, that it was a performance of Britten's Ceremony of Carols--- (the Wolcum Yul (sp?) movement.) If so, there are lots of recordings. The whole piece is great. |
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17 Nov 04 - 10:51 PM (#1330687) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welcome Yule! From: Malcolm Douglas The midi links mentioned above are now once again active. |