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Huron Carol

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Tamsin Dearnley’s arrangement of the traditional French-Canadian “Huron Carol” is for solo lever or pedal harp. Scroll down for additional notes.

This piece is available as a PDF download for $3.00.

Pages to print: 3 pgs.

Duration: 2:25

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Note from the arranger

This delightful carol was written by Jesuit missionary Jean de Brébeuf in 1642 while living at Sainte-Marie-au-pays-des-Hurons, a French Jesuit settlement near modern-day Midland, Ontario. The melody is loosely based on an old French melody ‘Une jeune Pucelle’ (A young Maid).

His original lyrics were in the native language of the indigenous Wyandot (Huron) people, and begin with an exhortation to ‘Have courage, you who are humans. Jesus, He is born!’.

English lyrics were put to the same melody in 1926, and use imagery that tried to evoke a sense of the indigenous Northeast Canadian culture: the infant Jesus is wrapped in ‘a robe of rabbit skin’ and given gifts of ‘fox and beaver pelts’ by ‘chiefs from afar’.

This arrangement, shown in the video below is not difficult to play, but very satisfying!

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1 review for Huron Carol

  1. Cynthia Judge (verified owner) –

    Tamsin Dearnley has the gift of inhabiting the pieces she arranges. I also appreciate the history of the pieces she provides and her video performances. This is one of many of her arrangements I have purchased.

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