Little lamb, who made thee? Does thou know who made thee, Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o’er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little lamb, who made thee? Does thou know who made thee? Little lamb, I’ll tell thee; Little lamb, I’ll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild, He became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by His name. Little lamb, God bless thee! Little lamb, God bless thee!
@Ali-kb8gr
3 жыл бұрын
This always makes me cry. It's hauntingly beautiful.
@jsphotos
3 жыл бұрын
La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) brought me here. Magical music for a magical film
@amystarke3317
3 жыл бұрын
We sang this in my church choir. The intervals are very difficult to sing until you get used to them!
@johnhewes186
8 жыл бұрын
What an incredible haunting but beautiful song.The words and the music performed by perhaps the best choral choir out there and in the acoustical perfect King's College Chapel. Wow!
@MS-19
3 жыл бұрын
The history of The Lamb is intermixed with King's College. John Tavener composed it in 1982 to mark the third birthday of his nephew Simon. He was convinced that it would be accepted by King's College for that year's carol service, but the publishers weren't so sure, as the music for the carol service is determined some way in advance and they couldn't guarantee that they hadn't 'missed the boat,' so to speak. Also, that year the choir had a new Director of Music - Stephen Cleobury - and it wasn't certain that he would consider a new work for his first Christmas. Nevertheless, copies were sent to King's in hopeful anticipation; they were also sent to Winchester Cathedral, where the Master of the Music was Dr Martin Neary, already a champion of Tavener's music. He agreed to do it even if King's didn't, and it was first performed at their Carol service on 23rd December 1982. However, to Tavener's surprise, Cleobury got in touch to say he too wanted to include The Lamb, feeling that it was important to have something fresh alongside the more traditional music. Thus it was unveiled to the wider world, thanks to the global broadcast, on 24th December 1982, becoming a classic in its own time and sowing the seed for a tradition at King's that would continue to the present day: that of commissioning a new piece for the carol service each year.
@haileyv2292
2 жыл бұрын
Wow. I’ve listened to the tracks but haven’t watched the performances until now. Amazing young men.
@carlooro7406
9 жыл бұрын
Great beauty! Grande bellezza! We all miss Taverner. God bless his soul!
@mariavanhoof7961
21 күн бұрын
It's Tavener without the first r you wrote
@debralynnpaxton5238
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely one of my all-time favorite songs ♥♥♥ A beautiful performance as well ♥♥♥ Bless them all ♥♥♥
@mistermans9909
7 жыл бұрын
I can Totally Agree with John Hewes. In the beginning of this amazing hymn it sounds like they are summoning an Unholy Demon, But then in the middle of the song it sounds like such a beautiful and heavenly choir. but then once again it gets creepy. So yeah John Hewes i can totally relate to this... FYI Look up The Lamb -- Tenebrae Choir. It's slower but still beautiful.
@xiaoculi
6 жыл бұрын
I'm not going to lie... when I first sang this I hated it because of the random flats and sharps but now I'm kind of in love with it
@EmlynORegan
6 жыл бұрын
Me too. Later when I took a close look at it, I realised that the two dissonant parts moved as a reflection of each other; eg: when one goes up by a semitone, the other goes down by a semitone. So one part is the other one upside down. Extraordinary really.
@AlphaNumeric123
4 жыл бұрын
TacoTacoTacoTaco which video?? I love his channel
@jsyvret472
Жыл бұрын
Without the dissonance the harmony wouldn't be nearly as impactful
@organboi
11 ай бұрын
@@jsyvret472Dissonance is harmony too. But I know what you mean.
@jsyvret472
11 ай бұрын
@@organboi good point. How would you word my point for future reference?
@DVDfeverGames
Жыл бұрын
I saw tonight's but it's been a bit stagnant for a few years. They haven't included this song for a while, and this might actually be the last time it was on, it's been so long. It's perfect for a Xmas Eve song.
@andreferreira6425
3 жыл бұрын
O mundo nunca mais verá alguém no nível de John Tavener, nossas gerações não são mais capazes de atingir o nível de sensibilidade e conhecimento para produzir obras de arte como as dele.
@JP_TaVeryMuch
Жыл бұрын
I am lucky to live in the beautiful village in whose churchyard he is buried. Despite being widely, very widely loved for his art by the public ~ and indeed the late Queen who always had a piece of his music at Her services in Westminster Abbey, there's not even a festival or a priest to run it at the church. What's gone on in our society and when will the Church of England forego trends and just give us a good old fashioned telling off / memento mori on a Sunday? And a new permanent vicar‽ Also, as further proof of the love we have for him, this year 2022, the BBC World Service "trailer" for Carols from King's features a snippet of this very performance. Merry Christmas one and all and Season's greetings.
@RandyQuaker
5 жыл бұрын
For all the people wondering and commenting. The first part that sounds ‘wrong’ is known as atonal, or 12 tone. It is chaotic and haunting by it’s very nature. Look up Schoenberg for a great example of 12 tone music. I for one find it awful, but to each his own. That being said...What I like about this particular piece is how it goes from that chaotic darkness, into the light. It shows you the contrast between good and evil. Logos, and lack of logos. Truth and lies, chaos and order. It’s pretty if I think of it like that, but that’s just my opinion..
@eduardoewert3417
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your explanation
@adrianmcl
4 жыл бұрын
I think you may be barking up the wrong musical tree here. Just because something sounds dissonant, it doesn't mean that it is automatically "12 tone" or "atonal." Dissonances have been used ever since music began. Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi and many more used dissonances to great effect. Just listen to the opening of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and you'll get my drift. In 12-tone music all of the chromatic notes carry equal weight, yet in the whole of "The Lamb" there is no C, C sharp, D or B flat. What Tavener does here is simple and brilliant. The opening phrase is quite simply in G major. Then, in the 2nd phrase, the one that sounds "wrong" to you, the alto part sings a mirror image of the soprano part but starting on the same note, like a reflection in a pool. What the soprano line does, the alto line does but in the opposite direction. There is not a lot in common with Schönberg here (who, by the way, could also write very beautiful, harmonic music) and it has nothing to do with "good and evil" but more like the difference between savoury and sweet, caviar and candy -- just different flavours and it serves to make the final "course, " the one in e minor sound all the more beautiful.
@strawnobi
3 жыл бұрын
It’s not 12 tone. As memory serves 12 tone follows very specific rules. The order of the 12 notes must be followed as I recall. It’s been so long. But that’s why in 12 tone it sounds strange. There is dissonance here. But it returns to tonality going back and forth. I could be wrong. But that doesn’t happen in 12 tone because only the order matters. It’s been so long though. I think that’s what one of the commenters was getting at. Benjamin Britten uses similar styles to Tavner in his choral works as well.
@jethrobradley7850
3 жыл бұрын
Tavener was very interested in the mystical and contemplative aspects of Christianity (as was William Blake) - I dare say he is trying to communicate something of this feeling through the music.
@theboogie_monsta
2 жыл бұрын
This discussion is interesting. Tavener: ‘I wrote [it]...while being driven by my mother from South Devon to London. It came to me fully grown so to speak, so all I had to do was to write it down. It was inspired by [William] Blake and by my three-year-old nephew, Simon.' The melodic dissonance is a result of palindrome, inverting the melody. I put it more in the category of inspiration than ideology - the 12 tone approach was quite regimented by comparison, had rules and stuff. By the way if anyone really likes that chromatic choral sound and is curious for more and hasn't come across this name already, check out Gesualdo! Awesome.
@louislaser7182
4 жыл бұрын
Quelle merveille !
@Viktoriya_IC
Жыл бұрын
Как это прекрасно! ❤❤❤
@imsosmart942
2 жыл бұрын
What do you call this type of harmony? It's also used in Song of Athena, which was performed at Diana's funeral as her casket was leaving the church.
@leonarddowsett9422
2 жыл бұрын
It is a clever use of polyphony,mixing two tonal centres.
@ArsenicJulep
Ай бұрын
Also the same composer.
@RoniLXmusic
3 жыл бұрын
Love this!
@Sploooks
6 жыл бұрын
Having to do this for choir but gouging your eyes out because you can't get the discordance right
@mickypoo4622
5 жыл бұрын
THEN just go gouge your eyes out AND leave the rest of us to simply appreciate the exquisite sound.
@Sploooks
2 жыл бұрын
@@mickypoo4622 so to follow up on this from being 15 at the time, what i couldn't really communicate was that in our school choir, the altos and sopranos would have a hard time with 0:36 because they couldn't place themselves due how harmonically intricate this part is, thankfully i didn't have to deal with this issue because i was in the tenor section.
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