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A Renaissance Christmas Celebration With the Waverly Consort (1977) by Waverly Consort; A Little Christmas Music (1989) by The King's Singers; Our Heart's Joy: A Chanticleer Christmas (1990) by Chanticleer; The Season (1990) by Fred Penner; Christmas (1993) by Bruce Cockburn; Christmas Around the World (2000) by Bradley Joseph; Cynara (2000) by ...
Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis Botto, [2] who sang with the group until 1989, and served as Artistic Director until his death from AIDS in 1997. [3] As a graduate student of musicology, Botto found that much of the medieval and Renaissance music he was studying was not being performed, and, because of this, he formed the group to perform this music with an all-male ensemble, as ...
The men's choir Chanticleer covered the song for their 2001 album Christmas with Chanticleer (featuring Dawn Upshaw). Isobel Cooper (Izzy) performed this song on her 2002 album New Dawn. The Vienna Boys' Choir feature" Suo Gân" (entitled "Suo-Gan") on their 2003 The Christmas Album.
"Sã qui turo zente pleta" (English: "All here are black people") is a Portuguese villancico for Christmas. It was composed by an anonymous monk of the Monastery of Santa Cruz circa 1643. [1] Performers of this song include the Roger Wagner Chorale, Chanticleer, Santa Fe Desert Chorale and The King's Singers.
"Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow" is a song telling the story of Christmas morning, describing a "star in the East" that will lead to the birthplace of Christ. The title derives from a lyric repeated throughout the song. Depending on how the song is arranged and performed, it is known variously as a spiritual, hymn, carol, gospel song, or folk song.
"Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing-day" is an English carol usually attributed as "traditional"; its first written appearance is in William B. Sandys' Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern of 1833. [1] However, it is almost certainly of a much earlier date; Studwell (2006) places it in the 16th century. [2]
"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).
Chanticleer, a character in the 1991 movie Rock-a-Doodle, voiced by Glen Campbell; Chanticleer, the surname of the main family in Hope Mirrlees' 1926 novel Lud-in-the-Mist; Chanticleer, the name of a hen in Disney's 2015 adaptation of Cinderella; Chanticleer, a rooster mentioned twice in Oscar Wilde's short story The Canterville Ghost