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06 Dec 04 - 09:49 AM (#1348797) Subject: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: Claire de la lune I have been asked to sing at an audubon society winter solstice celebration, and realize I don't really know any appropriate songs! It would need to be nature-oriented, seasonally-appropriate, and non-religious. Can anyone suggest a song or two? Thanks! |
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06 Dec 04 - 12:10 PM (#1348916) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: GUEST,Jean Johnson Perhaps you may find something useful here Jean |
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06 Dec 04 - 12:17 PM (#1348923) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: GUEST,solctice boy i was born 21 Dec.. so when exactly is winter solstice.. midnight 20th.. or midnight 21th or is it sunrise on one of those dates.. also would i have i born with any special hidden mystical powers worth trying to use to impress and pull any dopey hippy chicks at xmas parties.. or would they only pretend i'd pulled them long enough to lure me away to be sacrificed in a burning pagan wicker xmas hamper.. ps.. anyway, i'm not a virgin.. so i'd be a rubbish sacrificial offering to the wiccan xmas tree fairy goddess.. |
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06 Dec 04 - 12:22 PM (#1348928) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: MMario the exact moment of solstice actually wanders from year to year and of course depends on what time zone you live in. |
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06 Dec 04 - 12:30 PM (#1348939) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: PoppaGator I just took a quick peek at the link provided by Jean. A couple of good choices I noticed right away are "Deck the Halls" (my favorite non-religious Yuletide carol), "Carol of the Bells," and Mel Torme's "Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire" (properly entitled "The Christmas Song," if I'm not mistaken). Another obvious choice would be the venerable "Jingle Bells." Then there's "Winter Wonderland," "Let It Snow," "Silver Bells"... Hopefully, a thorough perusal will prod your memory and help you come up with a sufficient number of familiar "classics" that are appropriate. I would tend to stick with well-known, well-loved singalong stuff rather than made-up PC neo-pagan ditties like "Goddess Rest You Merry Gentlepersons" or whatever. |
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06 Dec 04 - 01:08 PM (#1348967) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: GUEST,ClaireBear There are a number of previous threads, but if you want to avoid religion entirely AND find one that celebrates nature AND is actually about the solstice event, you'll have to bypass a lot of their offerings. I think, though, that one posted by Dani in this thread on 18 December, 1999, might fit the requirements. Let us know what you end up with! |
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06 Dec 04 - 01:13 PM (#1348974) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: Micca I always felt the song in the first couple of posts in This Thread to be very Solistitial,a and a personal favourite, by Alouette Iselin |
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06 Dec 04 - 06:14 PM (#1349280) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: PoppaGator After looking at the two links supplied above by ClaireBear and Micca, I take back what I may have implied about newly-written solsice songs. There are a couple of very nice lyrics there, and the tunes are undoubtedly worth learning. No one here knows your audience as well as you do, and you have to decide what approach to take. If you think they would be happiest with something familiar that they can sing along with, you have a number of choices. It may be necessary to point out to the group that a song like, say "Deck the Halls," does *not* make any explicit mention of Christmas but refers only to "Yuletide." Without an introduction that includes a bit of such "edu-tainment," listeners would likely think of it as just another Christmas carol. On the other hand, they might be ready and willing to listen to something entirely new and different. Your call. At least you only need "a song or two," not a whole evening's program of songs that fit the requirements! |
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06 Dec 04 - 08:36 PM (#1349422) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Perhaps my "Christmas card song" will qualify. It's more for the Solstice than for yuletide. It's a seasonal video card, and for all of you friends. Can be downloaded(and forwarded to others?) if you like it. Cheers! Jean R. |
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06 Dec 04 - 08:38 PM (#1349426) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Sorry- I forgot to say where it is: www.jeanritchie.com Click on the first photo on the Homepage. The song is called, "Wintergrace." |
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06 Dec 04 - 11:06 PM (#1349541) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: mg Capri-Uni wrote a beautiful one a couple of years ago, and there were midis and song sheets and everything. Someone I bet will post a link or PM her. mg |
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06 Dec 04 - 11:24 PM (#1349552) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: open mike i LOVE lAURIE lEWIS' SONG THE MAPLE'S LAMENT IT HAS IN IT A LINE ABOUT BIRDS HUDDLING IN A TREE . SO IT IS A GOOD WINTER SONG. SHE HAS AN "ALBUM" OF SONGS DEDICATED TO THE AUDOBON SOCIETY. https://www.laurielewis.com/frame.html also I just heard Judy Fjell and she has a great song about migrating birds. it is the title song of her Birds Fly album: http://www.judyfjell.com/ amy martin also has a couple of bird songs.. cedar waxwing and raven's wings.. http://www.amy-martin.com/ |
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06 Dec 04 - 11:47 PM (#1349567) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: LadyJean "Rise Up Jock" by John Roberts and Tony Barrand, on their "Nowell Sing We Clear album. It tells the story of a mummers play, born of pagan rites, dramatizing the battle between summer and winter. "So rise up Jock and sing your song, for the summer's short and the winter's long. Let's all join hands and form a chain, 'til the leaves of springtime bloom again". |
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07 Dec 04 - 02:18 AM (#1349640) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: Malcolm Douglas Rise up Jock was written by Bob Pegg in 1971, though the DT file still doesn't credit him and is rather changed from his original song. Winter solstice? Perhaps. Pagan? No; but that's another story. |
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07 Dec 04 - 04:46 AM (#1349694) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: Big Tim Try "Ring Them [Solstice] Bells" by Jethro Tull, written in 70s but has an old feel to it. |
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07 Dec 04 - 05:00 AM (#1349699) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: The Borchester Echo Bleary Winter sung by Chris Wood on the English Acoustic Collective's CD Ghosts (RUFCD09). |
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12 Dec 04 - 08:27 PM (#1355149) Subject: Lyr Add: SUMMER IS INVINCIBLE (Karen Hemmingham) From: Herga Kitty SUMMER IS INVINCIBLE (Karen Hemmingham) When Winter falls upon the land C F G Ab Bb G Eb F And laces leaves in icy glow C F G Ab G Ab G When cold numbs every beast and man F Bb C Db C Bb Ab G And weaves its winding sheet of snow. Ch/Then in the midst of Winter C C Bb C Bb Ab G F When hope, like death, lies still C F G Ab Bb G Listen to the heart within singing Summer is invincible. Summer is invincible. When clouds like seas of foaming grey Drown out the blue of Summer skies When winds of steel forge through your days And the light of Summer dies. Chorus. When blood red beads the hedgerow And emerald spears of holly gleam When poison pearls the mistletoe And frost grips every dream |
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12 Dec 04 - 10:28 PM (#1355225) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: Arkie Diane Taraz uses different words from the usual in her recording of "In the Bleak Mid Winter". I did not listen all that carefully when I heard the recording but my impressions was they were more secular than the words I am accustomed to hearing. I would think they would be appropriate for winter solstice. |
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13 Dec 04 - 04:49 AM (#1355411) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: pavane I like 'The King' but I think it would not really be appropriate, as it concerns hunting and killing a wren! Anyway, it was New Year's Eve, not solstice. |
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19 Nov 17 - 04:14 PM (#3889337) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: FreddyHeadey Halsway Carol Music by Nigel Eaton Words by Iain Frisk 138 bpm Lo for the tiding of the Long Night Moon Let the sunrise call about the morning soon Short is the biding of the fading light Sing for the coming of the longest night North wind tell us what we need to know When the stars are shining on the midnight snow All of the branches will be turned to white Sing for the coming of the longest night A winter day, the summer grass turned hay Frost in the field 'til the dawn of May A summer's light never shone as great or as bright So dance in the shadows of a winter's night Lo for the tiding of the Long Night Moon May the harvest last until the springtime bloom Home is our comfort at the winter's height Sing for the coming of the longest night All of the colours of the sunrise sky Shine a light upon us, as the day goes by Sunsetting shadows fading out of sight Sing for the coming of the longest night A winter day, the summer grass turned hay Frost in the field 'til the dawn of May A summer's light never shone as great or as bright So dance in the shadows of a winter's night . . . . . . . . . This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. links to source & pdfs on another thread /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=158835#3822607 |
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22 Nov 17 - 05:38 AM (#3889708) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: FreddyHeadey also on that thread(so maybe there are more solstice songs there too) Howard Kaplan's "Long Is the Winter Till the Sun's Return", ?New and Different Christmas songs /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=158835#3759870 |
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22 Nov 17 - 05:28 PM (#3889845) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter solstice songs wanted From: Stewie There is also this album which I bought from Amazon. It arrived yesterday so I have had a quick listen only. It sounds pretty good to me. Beautiful darkness: celebrating the winter solstice. --Stewie. |