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El cant dels ocells: the melody (soprano)

The melody of El cant dels ocells, sung by the soprano, in Fm, from C4 to F5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the solo after the hummed opening, mostly by step, most often on C, from its low C, only on the first note of each verse, "Al" and "L'A-", leaping up a fourth from there, to its top F only on "lo" and "va" at the start of the second line, and in the third line on "més" and the start of "ditxosa," in verse 1 and the start of "melodía," in verse 2.

Range
C4 to F5
Key
Fm
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  1. 01 · Your part

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  2. 02 · With the others

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  3. 03 · Sing it

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About El cant dels ocells

Words: traditional Catalan, as printed by Lluís Millet (1917)

Tune: traditional Catalan, as printed by Lluís Millet (1917)

El cant dels ocells, the song of the birds, is a Catalan Christmas carol in which the birds go singing to celebrate the newborn Jesus; in verse 2 the imperial eagle sings "Jesús es nat per tráurens de pecat", Jesus is born to take us out of sin. The earliest printing of its tune that we have seen is the first song of Cançoner popular (Barcelona, 1903). Lluís Millet, director of the Orfeó Català, printed it in 1917 with his harmony for a solo voice over a men's choir humming with closed mouths, and said it has "una de les melodíes més hermoses de la terra catalana" (one of the most beautiful melodies of the Catalan land). Ours is Millet's harmony, his four humming parts made three, a tone lower, in F minor: a hummed opening and two verses, in Catalan, for 2 to 4 singers.

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