Jacob Collier's a cappella performance of one of these songs uses four chords to transition from E major to G half-sharp Major. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this type of song. Jesus's birth amid “snow on snow” is described in one of these songs, “In the Bleak Midwinter,” which was adapted by Gustav Holst.
ANSWER: Christmas carol
[10h] Collier chose this other English composer's setting of “In the Bleak Midwinter.” This organist, who wrote Anglican church music, worked for 50 years at St Michael, Cornhill.
ANSWER: Harold Darke
[10m] Collier has cited inspiration from the twelve-tone theme that first appears in an opera by this composer during a coach ride to a country house. This composer also wrote A Ceremony of Carols.
ANSWER: Benjamin Britten (the opera is The Turn of the Screw)
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