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"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" [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in Orchésographie , a dance book written by the French cleric, composer and writer Thoinot Arbeau , pen name of Jehan Tabourot (1519–1593).
"Angels We Have Heard on High" is generally sung to the hymn tune "Gloria", a traditional French carol as arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes.Its most memorable feature is its chorus, "Gloria in excelsis Deo", where the "o" of "Gloria" is fluidly sustained through 16 notes of a rising and falling melismatic melodic sequence.
"Ding Dong Merrily on High" music: Jehan Tabourot, words: George Ratcliffe Woodward: Tune originally entitled "Branle de l'Official". "Down in Yon Forest" English traditional The "Corpus Christi Carol" "Do You Hear What I Hear?" written by Noël Regney and Gloria Shayne Baker: 1962 "Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains"
Some writers of carols, such as George Ratcliffe Woodward who wrote "Ding Dong Merrily on High" and William Morris who wrote "Masters in This Hall", reverted to a quasi-mediaeval style; this became a feature of the early twentieth-century revival in Christmas Carols. Some composers have written extended works based on carols.
It included "Ding Dong Merrily on High" and "Past Three O'Clock". The same year Woodward received an honorary Lambeth Doctorate in Music. Woodward died at 48 West Hill, Highgate on 3 March 1934. His interment was at Little Walsingham, Norfolk, on 8 March 1934, at 2 PM.
"Ding Dong Merrily on High" – Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas "The Dingle Puck Goat" - Go Bananas "Dingo Tango" – Wiggly Safari "Do the Bus Stop" – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing "Do the Daddy Long Legs" – Racing to the Rainbow "Do the Flap" – Big Red Car "Do the Owl" – Wiggly Safari "Do the Propeller!" – Taking Off!
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Thoinot Arbeau, Catholic priest who composed the originally secular Ding Dong Merrily on High. Jean de Brébeuf, Canonized Jesuit who composed the Huron Carol. William Byrd, English Catholic (in the era of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts), composer of 3 polyphonic masses and other sacred music.