T-clog's Tackling the Commentary
I will be doing only one song at a time.
Cherry Tree Carol: I love the harmonies in this song. They are calm and contrasting. The deep tones of the man and the higher sweet sounds of the woman make for a great sound. I like the lyrics a lot. Maybe because I like a good Christmas song. The song is relaxing and transcends my mind to the middle east when Christ was born. I am not offset by the religious aspect of this song. I applaud your bravery in putting it on the CD. I suspect that you had an idea that it might not get high reviews from some of the members. I have never heard it before, and I will be hearing it often come this holiday season. Good pick Danny boy!
posted by C.F. Bear at 4:57 PM
2 Comments:
Prince would be proud of the 'Controversy' the kid from CF takes on, head-first.
It may well be the railing of Mixdorf on this song that spurred this commentary (and, indeed, this song first, in particular), and that the disagreements over "The Cherry Tree Carol" are representative of something bigger & deeper, but respond to the comments such as they are, I will.
So, I really love the harmonies in this song, too. Not so much near the beginning, where they are merely "octavating" (my term for notes that are the same-separating by a full octave of notes-not really a "harmony" at all in a technical sense), but they become really neat towards the end.
I can like a Christmas song with the best of them, or at least could in the past, as I fear I am sick of the majority of the ones we all know the names of. That's one of the reasons this song caught my hear (and why I expected it to be received a little better than it was). I hadn't heard it before. I am just a little offset by the religious aspect of the song. Like I think Mixdorf said, not simple THAT it is a religious song (even old grizzled Mixxy agrees that religious inspiration has given rise to some great works of art), but kind of the tack. I agree with him that it has that very narrow sort of "this happend, then that happened" sort of approach, when in fact NONE of it happened, as far as we know.
That said, I always thought the "what the hell was Joseph thinking when Mary told him she had the 'son of God' in her womb?" question to be a great one. And also, "has anyone else tried that since?" What if she was just a ho and a liar and she finally told a lie to avoid a big fight that just snowballed and snowballed, until it gave birth to this major religion? She would have been standing beind Jesus during all his major speeches with her eyes nervously looking to one side going, "Okay...okay son...I think they get it. Let's not concentrate on the whole 'virgin birth' thing there..."
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