This is a request in plenty of time for Christmas. This song by Daniel Kantor is very lovely as a stand alone song, but has been arranged with the addition of “Silent Night”. Basically just do the first verse of “Silent Night” after the three verses of “Night of Silence”. If you are up for it they can also be sung simultaneously.
The lyrics make it a poor choice in the southern hemisphere while we are fainting in an overcrowded poorly ventilated church covered in sweat… then again while symbolically inappropriate here, perhaps a few frozen thoughts might help.
The text is here and you can purchase the sheet music at OCP.
My backing starts sedately enough but I was playing with some new horn sounds, which build after a couple of verses:
It is obviously a crowd pleaser as a choir piece, so in various arrangements:
thank you for the music;
I have another song entitled “Alleluia” of Mass of the angel and saints.
the link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJy8X5c3Mls
I could wait for it….
God bless to you!
Thank you, Geoff. You got me looking for Still, still, still (played the accompaniment back in 1996).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rflf6NEQ6I