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For my 2nd submission to this year's Christmas Music Event I come to you with yet another mash-up of two Christmas Carols! "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Jezus Malusieńki" ("Little Jesus" in Polish). I have input 6 stanzas of each Carol here into the score. I once again wish I had Cantamus as listening to both the English and Polish lyrics at the same time would really enhance the listening experience to those who speak both languages. The piece starts off with a 3/4 variation of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and then follows a stanza of "Jezus Malusieńki" before the Carols are combined together at the same time in various different ways, some of which are slightly polytonal. I've been told that the harmony reminds of the English Renaissance in some parts, but let me know what you think! Thanks for listening and I'd appreciate any comments, suggestions, critiques or just observations! P.S.: Here is my first Christmas Mash-up that I submitted earlier for this years Christmas Music Event:

Hello everyone! I know it has been a while since I have upload a piece of music. That's because I went to balance uploads with reviewing, and sometimes I might be busy with my own compositions. This piece I am sharing with you is a solo piece for piano. Here is my goals this piece: 1. A short piece no more than 1-2 minutes. 2. I want to a write a piece a minor; however, you do not hear tonic. 3. It uses dissonance to establish dark, foreboding mood 4. You may think...Mussorgsky? Maybe? 5. Uses a short motive through out the piece to create variations. I can not think anything. Let me know what you think. I used to Audacity to render the wav to a mp3.

Here's my submission:

Nice piece! I think it is good length, ok structure, and nice melodies/dissonances.

This is quite a nice short piece! Too short... Maybe add the lick in there...

Dear all, After the "Halloween" music, I decided to start a larger set of works - the Festive series, which is a collection of music for festivals in my home place. I started with Double Ninth festival, which is quite close to this year's Halloween (29 Oct). Regarding the work, Double Ninth Festival - Hiking on Mount Qi writen for Ensemble and Voice This is a work under the Double Ninth festival, also known as Chung Yeung Festival, is a festival that reminisce our ancesters and dead. This work is writen based on the work 九日齊山登高 by 杜牧 (Du Mu, 803-852), a Chinese calligrapher, poet, and politician who lived during the late Tang dynasty. The lyrics are as follows, Double Ninth Festival - Hiking on Mount Qi - Du Mu Translation by the composer Autumnal scenery spotted on water with wild geese heading south, With wine pots, I climb up the lush contryside with friends. Hey, just laugh in all the difficulties, With chrysanthemums in the hair on the way home. Guzzle in the name of the festival, instead of climbing up and sigh for the sunset. Living short as people always were, Why should we weep at the mountain like Duke Jing of Qi? HoYin

A like to this for your inspiring you please!

Dont have a chance to listen to it, but from reading the score the drone like base creates this strong anxious atmosphere with the melodies on top. Reminds me of second mvmt of Sibelius 2nd symph also, Mr big hands syndrome again… unlike you expect rolling all of those chords? (Which I think ruins it a bit

Hey Henry I was just thinking about what you said and now that I think about it more there are probably more unexplored variations that could probably start with "Jezus..." instead of "God Rest..." .. I just went with the first successful combination I found honestly

Cool mashup. The harmony and key changing help keep things alive and fresh. And it seems like the rhythms are different from the original if I'm not mistaken. The piece was composed so smoothly, I couldn't tell when you switched up the songs, and I had 5 minutes to try and figure this out lol. I did notice that as you were about to wrap up a section, you suddenly changed the key, tempo and dynamics. It got my attention each time you did this.

Thanks for the advice. I tried two different other ways of combining the two Carols together so that they would finish their stanzas at the same time. My first attempt was to use a 6/8 variation of "God Rest..." while having the "Jezuz Malusieńki" in 3/4. There were 3 trailing measures at the end of "God Rest..." solo without "Jezus...". In another variation I had both Carols in 3/4 and had 4 measures of "God Rest..." solo without "Jezus...". Also, "God Rest..." has a pick-up anacrusis note while "Jezus..." starts right on the beat. The staggered entrances I used in the mash-up were my solution to these problems with the goal being to have both Carols coincide and finish their stanzas at the same time. I don't think there's any other way of achieving that - I think I tried quite a few alternate ways.

I say lead because after the exposition of each of the carol melodies in section A, it's always the English melody beginning the passage before the Polish melody follows two beat later. This happens in the beginning of section B, C, D and E. Even though there is change of the voices which is assigned the melodiees, I still think there can be some variations on the order of the appearence of the melodies, i.e. have the Polish Melody appears first and followed by the English melody!

Hi @Kvothe! In normal pieces I will find those parallel fifths and octaves between the melody and the ground bass unsettling, but here it well fits the mood! I do think the mood is well portrayed! I like the thicker texture and motivic writing in section B. But beware of passages like b.32-34, as no piainist would be able to play a 11th interval on a piano, maybe only on a harpsichord. Also more details can be for sure added like the dynamics. I don't get what you mean; the piece is in F minor and the tonic is always heard! Thx for sharing! Henry

Maybe instead of having the English melody leading the Polish melody, make a new counterpoint with the Polish melody taking the lead? That will avoid the more boring repeititons!

I felt like I had to find a way to include all 6 stanzas of each Carol in the piece! And the modulations are each prepared by a V chord right before each modulation (in bar 73 the F major chord prepares the modulation to Bb minor and in bar 113 the modulation to B minor is prepared with a Gb major chord). Thanks for your review!

Yo Peter, I find this mashup musically sound, despite they are in different keys! They don't sound in clash to me, even in passages like b.54. Except I don't like the cheap device of raising a semitone for repetition like many pop songs do, I think you can just stop in b.73! Thx for sharing! Henry

My 2nd submission to the event!

https://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/71e5c9cb2af83e1b63286b8d3463d66cbc0d02fb Untitled (2).mid