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O Holy Night

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Info:
Words: John Dwight
Music: Adolphe Adam
Key: C major
Time Sig: 6/8
Tempo: 108 | ballad
Tune: CANTIQUE DE NOEL
Meter: irregular
CCLI #: 6169064
Verse: Luke 1:35
Ideas:
This arrangement of O Holy Night is designed to be sung by a soloist with BGVs (background vocals) providing a counterpoint on the second verse. As with all my arrangements I believe it will sound good either with a full production or just a piano/soloist.

For years I've been playing a version of O Holy Night for various Christmas Eve Services - usually just me at the keyboard and a soloist or duet (one year an old opera singer friend of mine was in town and she sang it for our Christmas Eve service - that was amazing!)

It wasn't until a few years ago when I played O Holy Night at Newspring Church that I came up with the intro that solidified the arrangement. Then at a local mega church, we performed O Holy Night with my new BGV parts for their choir and a full production. I think the arrangement works best at the end of a Christmas Eve praise set, right before the sermon.

vocals / keys

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instruments

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chord charts

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Db Eb Gb Ab Bb
C D E F G A B rhythm PDFrhythm FINALE

tracks

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This arrangement can be transposed using the free Finale Notepad (Windows only.)
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   HYMNDEX Links
The modern worship lyrics trend for projection is to leave out most punctuation for a clean look. The original hymncharts lyrics text file contains punctuation. Our website hymndex.com was created to help churches build hymn lyric slides without punctuation.
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Instruments mp3s are the arrangements played one time through with just piano and instrumental parts to give you an idea of the orchestration. In the early days of hymncharts before I made vocal recordings I had created these instruments mp3s as a quick demo. Since I now create both a POP and an ORC (orchestrated) mix I no longer make instrumental mp3s for newer arrangements.
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