{"id":113350,"date":"2021-01-04T00:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T05:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/?post_type=product&#038;p=113350"},"modified":"2023-11-26T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T12:09:48","slug":"sussex-carol-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/all-music\/artists\/stephanie-bennett\/sussex-carol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Listen<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night) harp solo by Stephanie Bennett\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/46H_AgPD1cs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Bennett plays her arrangement of &#8220;Sussex Carol&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Notes from the arranger<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;On Christmas night all Christians sing to hear the news the angels bring.<br \/>\nOn Christmas night all Christians sing to hear the news the angels bring.<br \/>\nNews of great joy, news of great mirth, \u2028News of our merciful King&#8217;s birth!\u2028&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This celebratory Christmas song was first published by Luke Wadding, an Irish bishop, in a 17th century collection called &#8220;Small Garland of Godly and Pious Songs&#8221;. It became known as \u201cSussex Carol\u201d in the early 20th century upon being collected by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who heard it being sung by a folk singer in Sussex, England. He later included it in his choral settings, Eight Traditional English Carols and Fantasia on Christmas Carols.<\/p>\n<p>This lever harp arrangement is in the key of G (with a short section in D mixolydian for variety, from measures 56 to 65). There are no lever changes. It is suited for harps with at least 34 strings.<br \/>\nThe right hand has the melody most of the time, with the left hand accompanying; but the left hand gets to take center stage from measures 33 through 47; again from measures 86 through 89; and again at the end, from measures 100 through 106.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube video shows the pedal harp arrangement, which is exactly the same as the lever harp arrangement except that it is in the key of G flat instead of G; and it has ONE extra very low note at the very end.\u2028 I hope you enjoy sharing this cheerful song with your listeners, during many happy holidays!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stephanie Bennett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4>Scroll down to listen.<\/h4>\n<p>Stephanie Bennett has arranged the traditional English carol &#8220;Sussex Carol&#8221; for solo lever or pedal harp. This joyous Christmas tune is perfect for all Christmas occasions; from church services, to concerts, to parties! Scroll down for notes from the arranger.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is available as a PDF download in the following combinations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lever harp version: <strong>$8.00<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pedal harp version:<strong> $8.00<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Length<\/em>: each version is 8 pgs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Duration<\/em>: 2:40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":113353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[927],"product_tag":[477],"class_list":["post-113350","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-stephanie-bennett","product_tag-harp-solo","pa_artist-bennett-stephanie","pa_combinations-lever-harp-version","pa_combinations-pedal-harp-version","pa_composer-traditional","pa_genre-folk-traditional","pa_genre-sacred","pa_harp-type-harp-lever","pa_harp-type-harp-pedals","pa_instrumentation-harp-solo","pa_level-intermediate","pa_occasion-christmas","pa_occasion-church","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/113350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=113350"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=113350"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=113350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}