Keeper1st | Jingle Bells / The One-Horse Open Sleigh (ragtime arr. George Bogatko) @Keeper1st | Uploaded December 2016 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
My posting of this on Facebook was extremely popular and shared about 30 times, so I thought I'd post it here, even though I don't usually like to post the same "performer" twice in a row. Anyway, to celebrate the start of winter, here's one of the most popular winter-themed songs (which oddly doesn't get heard beyond the first four days of the season due to its erroneous association with Christmas).
It's the wildest arrangement of this song that I've ever heard, from the brilliant mind of George Bogatko.
I deliberately made sure that the synthesizer was partially in shot this time, as someone asked in the previous video where the pipes and xylophone sounds were coming from.
This song dates from the 1850s, but originally had a completely different chorus musically from what is known today. Download the original sheet music here: loc.gov/item/sm1857.620520 (each page has to be downloaded individually) or a PDF version here: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/166827
Note when reading the chorus that the tenor part is not using a modern standard tenor clef; it is positioned a step lower, with middle C in the space above the center line. So essentially it is read identically to the treble clef but an octave lower.
If you wonder why they'd do such a thing, well, it's a reminder that clefs are simply meant to show you where a particular note is for the particular piece of music. There's no "correct position" for them technically. The "treble clef" merely indicates where the G above middle C should be, while the "bass clef" indicates where the F below middle C should be, and the tenor and alto clefs indicate where middle C should be. There's no reason any of these clefs can't be moved around, and in older music like this it's not uncommon to see them in what now would be unconventional positions. (I have a piece somewhere that has the G clef ("treble clef") positioned on the bottom line of the staff instead of the second line, for example.)
My posting of this on Facebook was extremely popular and shared about 30 times, so I thought I'd post it here, even though I don't usually like to post the same "performer" twice in a row. Anyway, to celebrate the start of winter, here's one of the most popular winter-themed songs (which oddly doesn't get heard beyond the first four days of the season due to its erroneous association with Christmas).
It's the wildest arrangement of this song that I've ever heard, from the brilliant mind of George Bogatko.
I deliberately made sure that the synthesizer was partially in shot this time, as someone asked in the previous video where the pipes and xylophone sounds were coming from.
This song dates from the 1850s, but originally had a completely different chorus musically from what is known today. Download the original sheet music here: loc.gov/item/sm1857.620520 (each page has to be downloaded individually) or a PDF version here: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/166827
Note when reading the chorus that the tenor part is not using a modern standard tenor clef; it is positioned a step lower, with middle C in the space above the center line. So essentially it is read identically to the treble clef but an octave lower.
If you wonder why they'd do such a thing, well, it's a reminder that clefs are simply meant to show you where a particular note is for the particular piece of music. There's no "correct position" for them technically. The "treble clef" merely indicates where the G above middle C should be, while the "bass clef" indicates where the F below middle C should be, and the tenor and alto clefs indicate where middle C should be. There's no reason any of these clefs can't be moved around, and in older music like this it's not uncommon to see them in what now would be unconventional positions. (I have a piece somewhere that has the G clef ("treble clef") positioned on the bottom line of the staff instead of the second line, for example.)
