By-by, Lullay
Music © 2008 GIA.
Item #: G-6996 Status: Available
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Vocal Forces: SATB
Accompaniment: Reduction
Text Source: Anonymous, ca. 1500
Series: Christmas
Difficulty Level: E
Description:
One of three Christmas carols composed on older texts—this one anonymous, ca.1500—intended to give choirs substantial unaccompanied Christmas literature (see also “King of Kings,” G-6995, and “Christmas Bells,” G-6997).
This lullaby has a lovely melismatic and polyphonic recurring refrain on the “lul” of “lullay.”
The choral writing, with its occasion strings of parallel fifths, has a moderately contemporary sound.
Categories: Choral/Vocal
Seasonal: Christmastide
Liturgical: Christmas Dawn, Christmas Day, Christmas Night, Christmas Vigil, Mary, Mother of God
Number of Pages: 8
Language: English
Format: Octavo
