Description
The Noel tune A la venuë de Noel is one of a group of popular French melodies of the renaissance and baroque periods that joined sacred texts with secular music and dance. These simple, rustic tunes were used for singing and dancing by aristocrats, middle classes and peasants alike during the festive period, and also appeared in many more formalised instrumental settings for use in church services and court performances, by composers such as Charpentier, Lebegue and Daquin.
This Noel appears in Louis-Claude Daquin’s Nouveau Livre de Noels pour l’orgue (1735). Daquin gives careful organ registration information for each Noel, but also says ‘the majority can be played on violins, flutes oboes &c’.
A la venuë de Noel is in the form of cumulative variations; the original organ version has been freely adapted here for performance on recorders.
All the parts require good dexterity and are around Grade 8+ level.
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