Answer the following about music you might hear at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge, which is broadcast to millions each Christmas Eve, for 10 points each.
[10h] Boris Ord’s setting of this 15th-century English text about the Fall of Man as described in Genesis is typically performed after the first lesson. This text declares of its title figure “Four thousand winter thought he not too long.”
ANSWER: Adam lay ybounden
[10e] A setting of “Wither’s Rocking Hymn” by this composer is often performed at the event, as part of his large output of Anglican church music. This composer’s larger-scale works include A Sea Symphony and The Lark Ascending.
ANSWER: Ralph Vaughan Williams [accept RVW; prompt on Williams]
[10m] The last hymn on the program is always this one with text by Charles Wesley and music by Felix Mendelssohn. A famous descant for this hymn inserts a striking dissonance in its third and final verse, which ends with “glory to the newborn king.”
ANSWER: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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