Dec 20 | Panagia Track #6: The Wexford Carol

Here’s Track 6 of Panagia, a traditional piece called “The Wexford Carol”!

There haven’t really been any tracks in these albums so far that have actually featured the harp on its own, so here’s my setting of this beautiful Irish carol. Its use of Mixolydian mode is always a rather delightful surprise to me, even after hearing it many times, and it’s fun to get a chance to flip the harp’s levers in the middle of playing (or at least, it was once I got the hang of it!) The words to this carol claim to be quite old, and are as follows:

Good people all, this Christmastime
Consider well, and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done
In sending his beloved Son

With Mary holy we should pray
To God with love this Christmas day
In Bethlehem upon that morn
There was a blessed Messiah born

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