Another Christmas Mash-up

For my 2nd submission to this year's Christmas Music Event I come to you with yet another mash-up of two Christmas Carols!  "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Jezus Malusieńki" ("Little Jesus" in Polish).  I have input 6 stanzas of each Carol here into the score.  I once again wish I had Cantamus as listening to both the English and Polish lyrics at the same time would really enhance the listening experience to those who speak both languages.  The piece starts off with a 3/4 variation of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and then follows a stanza of "Jezus Malusieńki" before the Carols are combined together at the same time in various different ways, some of which are slightly polytonal.  I've been told that the harmony reminds of the English Renaissance in some parts, but let me know what you think!  Thanks for listening and I'd appreciate any comments, suggestions, critiques or just observations!

P.S.:  Here is my first Christmas Mash-up that I submitted earlier for this years Christmas Music Event:

Yo Peter,

I find this mashup musically sound, despite they are in different keys! They don't sound in clash to me, even in passages like b.54. Except I don't like the cheap device of raising a semitone for repetition like many pop songs do, I think you can just stop in b.73! Thx for sharing!

Henry

3 minutes ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

They don't sound in clash to me, even in passages like b.54. Except I don't like the cheap device of raising a semitone for repetition like many pop songs do, I think you can just stop in b.73!

I felt like I had to find a way to include all 6 stanzas of each Carol in the piece!  And the modulations are each prepared by a V chord right before each modulation (in bar 73 the F major chord prepares the modulation to Bb minor and in bar 113 the modulation to B minor is prepared with a Gb major chord).  Thanks for your review!

2 minutes ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

And the modulations are each prepared by a V chord right before each modulation (in bar 73 the F major chord prepares the modulation to Bb minor and in bar 113 the modulation to B minor is prepared with a Gb major chord). 

Maybe instead of having the English melody leading the Polish melody, make a new counterpoint with the Polish melody taking the lead? That will avoid the more boring repeititons!

3 minutes ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Maybe instead of having the English melody leading the Polish melody, make a new counterpoint with the Polish melody taking the lead?

Both the English and the Polish melodies are tossed around the different registers of the choir, sometimes being in the Sopranos, sometimes in the Basses, Baritones or Tenors.  Is that what you mean?  I don't really think either Carol melody "leads" in this piece.

1 minute ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Is that what you mean?  I don't really think either Carol melody "leads" in this piece.

I say lead because after the exposition of each of the carol melodies in section A, it's always the English melody beginning the passage before the Polish melody follows two beat later. This happens in the beginning of section B, C, D and E. Even though there is change of the voices which is assigned the melodiees, I still think there can be some variations on the order of the appearence of the melodies, i.e. have the Polish Melody appears first and followed by the English melody!

3 minutes ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

I say lead because after the exposition of each of the carol melodies in section A, it's always the English melody beginning the passage before the Polish melody follows two beat later. This happens in the beginning of section B, C, D and E. Even though there is change of the voices which is assigned the melodiees, I still think there can be some variations on the order of the appearence of the melodies, i.e. have the Polish Melody appears first and followed by the English melody!

Thanks for the advice.  I tried two different other ways of combining the two Carols together so that they would finish their stanzas at the same time.  My first attempt was to use a 6/8 variation of "God Rest..." while having the "Jezuz Malusieńki" in 3/4.  There were 3 trailing measures at the end of "God Rest..." solo without "Jezus...".  In another variation I had both Carols in 3/4 and had 4 measures of "God Rest..." solo without "Jezus...".  Also, "God Rest..." has a pick-up anacrusis note while "Jezus..." starts right on the beat.  The staggered entrances I used in the mash-up were my solution to these problems with the goal being to have both Carols coincide and finish their stanzas at the same time.  I don't think there's any other way of achieving that - I think I tried quite a few alternate ways.

Cool mashup. The harmony and key changing help keep things alive and fresh. And it seems like the rhythms are different from the original if I'm not mistaken. The piece was composed so smoothly, I couldn't tell when you switched up the songs, and I had 5 minutes to try and figure this out lol. I did notice that as you were about to wrap up a section, you suddenly changed the key, tempo and dynamics. It got my attention each time you did this.

36 minutes ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

I say lead because after the exposition of each of the carol melodies in section A, it's always the English melody beginning the passage before the Polish melody follows two beat later. This happens in the beginning of section B, C, D and E. Even though there is change of the voices which is assigned the melodiees, I still think there can be some variations on the order of the appearence of the melodies, i.e. have the Polish Melody appears first and followed by the English melody!

Hey Henry I was just thinking about what you said and now that I think about it more there are probably more unexplored variations that could probably start with "Jezus..." instead of "God Rest..." .. I just went with the first successful combination I found honestly

1 hour ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

say lead because after the exposition of each of the carol melodies in section A, it's always the English melody beginning the passage before the Polish melody follows two beat later. This happens in the beginning of section B, C, D and E. Even though there is change of the voices which is assigned the melodiees, I still think there can be some variations on the order of the appearence of the melodies, i.e. have the Polish Melody appears first and followed by the English melody

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