Keepin' the Baby Awake: Music for Advent and Christmas

~ Release by The Miserable Offenders (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
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1What Is the Crying at Jordan
singing bowl [Tibetan bowl]:
Ana Hernández (sacred music and chant)
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
recording of:
What Is the Crying at Jordan?
lyricist:
Carol Christopher Drake
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:57
2Prepare the Way, O Zion | Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
djembe and slit drum [tongue drum]:
Ana (sacred music and chant)
synthesizer:
Deb
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
medley including a recording of:
Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus ("Stuttgart" melody)
lyricist:
Charles Wesley (hymn writer)
composer:
Christian Friedrich Witt
part of:
The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal hymnal) (number: 66)
is based on:
Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (words only, please link recordings to work with melody)
is based on:
Stuttgart (hymn tune, no lyrics)
medley including a recording of:
Prepare the Way, O Zion
lyricist:
Frans Michael Franzén
translator:
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist – Do not add releases here, if possible.)
3:11
3Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
slit drum [tongue drum]:
Ana (sacred music and chant)
synthesizer:
Deb
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
recording of:
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Vaughan Williams arrangement of Picardy)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1906)
translator:
Gerard Moultrie
is based on:
Picardy (Hymn tune)
5:06
4Summer in Winter
piano:
Deb
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
recording of:
Summer in Winter
lyricist:
Richard Crashaw
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
4:53
5Dost Thou in a Manger Lie
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
recording of:
Dost Thou in a Manger Lie (Dies est laetitiae melody)
lyricist:
Jean Mauburn (Jan Mombaer)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
translator:
Elizabeth Charles
2:59
6My Dancing Day
piano:
Deb
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
2:45
7Magnificat
piano:
Deb
recording of:
Magnificat
composer:
D.G Bly
4:14
8All and Some
synthesizer:
Deb
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
1:23
9Away in a Manger
djembe, güiro and slit drum [tongue drum]:
Ana (sacred music and chant)
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
recording of:
Away in a Manger (Mueller variation)
additional lyricist:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1892)
lyricist:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Carl Mueller and James Ramsey Murray (in 1885)
2:47
10O Little Town of Bethlehem
slit drum [tongue drum]:
Ana (sacred music and chant)
synthesizer:
Deb
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
recording of:
O Little Town of Bethlehem (traditional carol with the tune “Forest Green”, as sung in the UK and the Episcopal Church in the U.S.)
lyricist:
Phillips Brooks (in 1868)
additional composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1906)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
publisher:
Oxford University Press (in 1906)
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 32)
is based on:
The Ploughboy's Dream
version of:
O Little Town of Bethlehem (traditional carol with the tune “St. Louis”, as commonly sung in the U.S.)
2:06
11A Stable Lamp Is Lighted
guest double bass [string bass]:
Mark Dann
piano:
Deb
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant)
recording of:
A Stable Lamp Is Lighted
lyricist:
Richard Wilbur
composer:
Ana Hernández (sacred music and chant)
5:23
12Angels We Have Heard on High | Love Came Down at Christmas
djembe and slit drum [tongue drum]:
Ana (sacred music and chant)
synthesizer:
Deb
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
medley including a recording of:
Angels We Have Heard on High
lyricist:
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist – Do not add releases here, if possible.)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
translator:
James Chadwick (bishop) (in 1862)
version of:
Les Anges dans nos campagnes
medley including a recording of:
Love Came Down at Christmas
lyricist:
Christina Rossetti
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
4:48
13Alleluia
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
recording of:
Alleluia
writer:
Bill Bly ("Bill")
0:53
14I'm Gonna Tell My Jesus Howdy
vocals:
Ana (sacred music and chant) and Deb
2:57