Chantez à Dieu - Sweelinck - performed by the one-man choir dwsChorale

Chantez à Dieu chanson nouvelle (Psalm 96)
Music by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Performed (transposed one tone down) by the dwsChorale (one-man multitrack choir)
Downloadable mp3 available from
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dwschorale2

More example of performances by this "choir" can be found on YouTube
and also on my main website:
http://www.dwsolo.com


Score available from CPDL:
http://www.choralwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Psalm_96_-_Chantez_a_Dieu_(Jan_Piete...)

Image Credits:

Portrait of Sweelinck from Wikipedia


Photograph of the Oude Kerk (where Sweelinck was organist for most of his life) from
the Amsterdam Municipal Department for the preservation of Historic Buildings and Sites bMA
http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/index_e.html
(email: bma@bma.dmb.amsterdam.nl ) Chantez à Dieu chanson nouvelle, Chantez, ô terre universelle, Chantez, et son Nom bénissez.
Sing a new song to God
Sing, oh all the earth,
Sing and bless his name Et de jour en jour annoncez Sa délivrance solennelle.
and from day to day tell of
his great salvation

Translator's note
My translation here is fairly literal based on the French version chosen by Sweelinck, and is just for information.
The word Solennelle has puzzled me, since its normal meanings are fairly diverse: "publically observed", "solemn", "ceremonious", "for great occasions", even
"annual". Moreover the other French versions of the psalm do not include the word "Solennelle" and it does not appear in other versions of the psalm in other languages that I have found. I therefore opted for "great salvation", since the other renditions simply don't fit the context. Purists may query my pronunciation of the word "Solennelle", which would be "solanel" in modern French. The pronunciation in Sweelinck's day may have been as I have sung it, but I won't force the issue!

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[Silverdaddy101]

Exactly what is the point of a one man choir?

[dwsolo]

@Silverdaddy101 A bit of fun :-)

[JoelvanLennep]

A many-personned God. Impressive, but tuning needs tweaking nonetheless.