CHOR GESANG - Das Musikmagazin's video: Ding Dong Merrily on High arr David Willcocks Exeter Cathedral Choir Timothy Noon

The Christmas carol "Ding! Dong! Merrily on High" set to music by David Willcocks 🎶 and sung by the Girl Choristers and Adults of Exeter Cathedral Choir conducted by their Director of Music Timothy Noon with Timothy Parsons at the organ 🎵. Enjoy a special performance every day of Advent by the Exeter Cathedral Choir 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOmdB55b14U45TdlFlLJe8ebG8pLubJ6T Help to continue the tradition of choral music at Exeter Cathedral. Please consider making a donation to the Exeter Cathedral Music Foundation Trust at 👉 https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/exetercathedralmusic. Thank you! "Ding Dong Merrily on High" is a Christmas carol. The tune first appeared as a secular dance tune known under the title "Branle de l'Official" in Orchésographie, a dance book written by the French cleric, composer and writer Jehan Tabourot (1519–1593). The lyrics are from English composer George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848–1934), and the carol was first published in 1924 in his The Cambridge Carol-Book: Being Fifty-two Songs for Christmas, Easter, And Other Seasons. Woodward took an interest in church bell ringing, which no doubt aided him in writing it. Woodward was the author of several carol books, including Songs of Syon and The Cowley Carol Book. The macaronic style is characteristic of Woodward’s delight in archaic poetry. Charles Wood harmonised the tune when it was published with Woodward's text in The Cambridge Carol Book. More recently, Sir David Willcocks made an arrangement for the second book of Carols for Choirs. TEXT Ding dong merrily on high, In heav'n the bells are ringing: Ding dong! verily the sky Is riv'n with angel singing. Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! E'en so here below, below, Let steeple bells be swungen, And "Io, io, io!" By priest and people sungen. Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! Pray you, dutifully prime Your matin chime, ye ringers; May you beautifully rime Your evetime song, ye singers. Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! © CHOR GESANG - Das Musikmagazin (2020) mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Exeter Cathedral Choir +++ Exeter Cathedral Choir +++ https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/worship-music/music-choirs/cathedral-choir/ https://www.facebook.com/exetercathedral/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAG0OXLsZtyYsLYuRuKanng https://www.instagram.com/exetercathedral/ https://twitter.com/exetercathedral +++ CHOR GESANG - Das Musikmagazin +++ https://www.facebook.com/ChorGesang2016/ https://www.youtube.com/c/ChorGesangChannel/ https://www.instagram.com/chorgesang/ https://twitter.com/Chor_Gesang