The Cherry Tree Carol for 3 voices and 2 guitars Acoustic Guitar - Digital Sheet Music
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The Cherry Tree Carol for 3 voices and 2 guitars
22368912
22368912
22368912
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Guitar,High Voice,Low Voice,Medium Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1121185
By Simon James, Dave Warren, Daniel Thomas, Matthew Thomas. By Traditional British. Arranged by Simon James. Christian,Christmas,Classical,Contemporary,Traditional. Full Performance. Duration 273. DML #722359. Published by DML (A0.1121185)."The Cherry-Tree Carol" (Roud 453) is a ballad with the rare distinction of being both a Christmas carol and one of the Child Ballads (no. 54). The song itself is very old, reportedly sung in some form at the Feast of Corpus Christi in the early 15th century. The ballad relates an apocryphal story of the Virgin Mary, presumably while traveling to Bethlehem with Joseph for the census. In the most popular version, the two stop in a cherry orchard, and Mary asks her husband to pick cherries for her, citing her child. Joseph spitefully tells Mary to let the child's father pick her cherries. At this point in most versions the infant Jesus, from the womb, speaks to the tree and commands it to lower a branch down to Mary, which it does. Joseph, witnessing this miracle, immediately repents his harsh words. This arrangement was created for three voices, Treble, Tenor and Bass with an accompaniment on two guitars for the annual carol service – A Star For Christmas. The voices do to some extent take on the characters of the three people involved, Joseph, Mary and the unborn infant Jesus in the context of the lyrics used.
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