{"id":654,"date":"2015-12-15T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=654"},"modified":"2015-12-15T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:00:35","slug":"advent-calendar-day-17-there-is-no-rose-of-such-virtue-chanticleer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2015\/12\/15\/advent-calendar-day-17-there-is-no-rose-of-such-virtue-chanticleer\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 17 – There is no rose of such virtue (Chanticleer)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for more roses?\u00a0 Today’s rose is a 15th century English rose, and is a text that has been sung to many different arrangements.\u00a0 Interestingly, it seems to have become a big thing in the last century or so – I’ve found melodies and arrangements by artists who I know – Britten<\/a>, the Mediaeval Baebes<\/a>, Joubert<\/a>, and, regrettably, Sting<\/a> – and ones who are new to me – Young<\/a>, Koppin<\/a>, McDonald<\/a>, Memley<\/a> (my favourite of this lot), and, honestly, each YouTube video leads to another new version of this piece.\u00a0 I’m beginning to feel I could fill an Advent Calendar just with this text.<\/p>\n

(It’s a lovely text, but really?)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m feeling a bit traditional this week, so we are going to eschew all this 20th and 21st century madness for a proper, old-fashioned version, which goes to what I understand to be the original tune, as sung by Chanticleer.\u00a0 After all those lush dissonances, it’s a pleasure to hear a nice open fifth or two, and a melody that makes sense on its own…<\/p>\n

… and that, apparently, is all I want to say about it.\u00a0 I’m exhausted after listening to fifteen different 20th-century arrangements of this song*…<\/p>\n