{"id":1114,"date":"2007-12-13T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2010-07-30T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T06:09:08","slug":"friendly-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Friendly beasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/friendlybeastsdescant.pdf' title='Friendly Beasts descant part'><img src='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/friendlybeastsdescant.jpg' alt='Friendly Beasts descant part thumbnail' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The folk ensemble here at First Unitarian in New Bedford will be singing &#8220;The Friendly Beasts&#8221; in the worship service this Sunday. Above is the simple descant part that the high voices will be singing. A soprano recorder will double the high voices on the descant part this Sunday (the folk ensemble will also include guitar, mountain dulcimer, and mandolin). Click the image for a full-size PDF file.<\/p>\n<p>This descant part is easy to learn and sounds good, so I thought I&#8217;d share it here in case you&#8217;re looking for a way to spice up your Christmas carol singing. You can find the basic melody of &#8220;The Friendly Beasts&#8221; in <em>Singing the Living Tradition,<\/em> the current Unitarian Universalist hymnal, as hymn #243, under a different title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folk ensemble here at First Unitarian in New Bedford will be singing &#8220;The Friendly Beasts&#8221; in the worship service this Sunday. Above is the simple descant part that the high voices will be singing. A soprano recorder will double the high voices on the descant part this Sunday (the folk ensemble will also include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[533],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engaging-worship","tag-christmas-carol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7340,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/7340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}