Variations on Here is joy for every age (Ecce novum gaudium Piae Cantiones) alto n tenor recorders by Traditional Woodwind Duet - Digital Sheet Music

Variations based on a Christmas carol taken from the Finnish collection "Piae Cantiones" (1582) The original mixolydian mode is later transformed into a minor mode, then moved, reverting to mixolydian, into a sort of waltz, and then back to the original. The original words begin: Ecce novum gaudium, ecce novum mirum, Virgo parit filium quae non novit virum, Quae non novit virum, sed ut pyrus pyrum, gleba fert papyrum florens lilium. (English version by John Mason Neale) Here Is Joy For Every Age, Every generation; Prince and peasant, chief and sage, Every tongue and nation: Every tongue and nation, Every rank and station Hath today salvation, Alle Alleluia. Literal translation:Here is a new joyHere is a new wonderA virgin gave birth to a sonshe never knew a manshe never knew a manbut just as a pear tree bears a pearand the hard soil bears the pear treeshe bears the lily flower of purity