(For an explanation of this project and links to the rest of the canon, see the master list.)
My experimentation with Botnik started a few years ago. The first thing I produced, round about Christmas 2017, was this predictive-text carol, made from the same word bank as this year’s Bad Carols:
Since this was The One Bad Carol to Rule Them All, I wanted to give it a truly epic musical setting. To that end, I gave myself two rules:
- Score for orchestra plus four-part choir,
- Do not crash Noteflight.
….These turned out to be mutually exclusive goals.
The final piece is scored for four-part choir plus string quartet.
Christmas Dinner Belling
It’s Christmas bells, it’s parson gifts
It’s so dreadfully white
And we believe neighbors blink
On Christmas time tonight
It’s tallest grandpa sandwich time
It’s loaded lots with ants
Let steeple ways be Santa, ’cause
It’s Christmas dinner snitched
Let sleigh ride sinners play the bells
And Mary captive toast
We spend termites of red striped socks
And wild candle thump
It’s just a partridge that you hear
It’s so long since we’ve peace
It’s dolls that are, Mr. Chorus ho
And everyone sang his beard
And everyone sang his beard
May Tallest Grandpa Sandwich Time bless us, every one.
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