{"id":26668,"date":"2018-12-18T20:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=26668"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:00:29","slug":"a-cappella-trudbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-cappella-trudbol\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Christmas Music from A Cappella Trudbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The miracle of the Internet and modern musical technology gives us music that simply wasn&#8217;t possible hundreds of years ago when <a href=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/text\/god_rest_ye_merry_gentlemen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen<\/em><\/a> was created. Bear that in mind when you listen to this more accurate rendition of the song by a single man carrying four different parts. This song is one of the most abused in all of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music and it is refreshing to hear it presented as it &#8220;should&#8221; be performed:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJIoQeBlcSU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Julien Neel is a one-man barbershop quartet. His business is creating learning videos for vocal parts. A happy byproduct of that are his videos featuring Neel singing&#8230;well, with himself.<\/p>\n<p>I call God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen one of the most abused songs of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music because so many artists treat the song with sweeping cinematic sound tracks and dramatic dynamics that betray the song&#8217;s original intent.<\/p>\n<p><em>God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen<\/em> is a joyful song, a song of celebration.<\/p>\n<p>We have resisted sharing several renditions of the song this year from popular artists because they interpret the song so dramatically. Most sing it like singing <em>Happy Birthday<\/em> at a funeral. It is just inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Neel&#8217;s classic four-part presentation is much truer to the original intent of the song.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;d <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> to see the technology that would put a guy like this in concert, able to sing all four parts spontaneously, I doubt that day is coming.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for Youtube!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The miracle of the Internet and modern musical technology gives us music that simply wasn&#8217;t possible hundreds of years ago when God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen was created. Bear that in mind when you listen to this more accurate rendition of the song by a single man carrying four different parts. This song is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[795,729],"class_list":["post-26668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen","tag-julien-neel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}