Re: This week's SG-12 Church Concert video filmed
dbrosky wrote:
very "spanish" modalality going to the what sounds like a E7 as opposed to an Em ( Am-G-F-) nice touch.
Was that the churches bells or did you create your own loop to lead that off? Brilliant either way!
It's a traditional Swedish folk melody and pastoral hymn with many alternative lyrics. 1936 someone arranged it for organ and it got popular with church sermons as a psalm. If looking back in time the earliest glimpse of this tune is with a guy born 1793. Back in those days people listened and parroted to bring tradition on into the future.... so it could be even older than that. As usual I did not have the patience to learn it "correctly" so I'm just playing it my way after having heard it somewhere. In fact I added an some extra parts that I think sounds interesting with the traditional stuff... it's public domain music anyway.
I like that E7 going to Am G C etc; that you pointed out. It kind of mashes up the two scales Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor and makes the piece a little more edgy. I think I'm putting a little extra weight on those G# and G notes just because I like that "breaking out of the expected scale" vibe.
The ringing of church bells was authentic. The priest and I had agreed on a program where he should open and greet people, then the bells should ring for a while, then I should play for half an hour before he should perform a short sermon and do some personal preaching, then I should play another ten to fifteen minuts and we would all move from the church into another house to have coffee and cake. It was a nice evening.