Name: The Coventry Carol (arr. Simon James) by Traditional Solo Guitar Digital Sheet Music
Brand: DML
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The Coventry Carol (arr. Simon James)
by Traditional Solo Guitar - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title The Coventry Carol (arr. Simon James)

Artist Traditional

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Traditional

Arranger Simon James

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 5

Arrangement Solo Guitar

Publisher DML

Level 3

Product ID 1403128

Genre Christmas Classical Contemporary Historic Medieval

Instruments Guitar

Product Description

The "Coventry Carol" is an English Christmas carol dating from the 16th century. The carol was traditionally performed in Coventry in England as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors. The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter two in the Gospel of Matthew: the carol itself refers to the Massacre of the Innocents, in which Herod ordered all male infants under the age of two in Bethlehem to be killed, and takes the form of a lullaby sung by mothers of the doomed children. The music contains a well-known example of a Picardy third. The melody sits well on the guitar, so much so that this arrangement is based on changing key from E minor to A minor to D minor and back again to E minor with the melody always present. In the D minor variation the tune is in the bass.

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