Episode 30: Traditional Christmas

Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music.  I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring traditional Christmas music.  As such, there are a number of songs this week with vocals, but they're pretty well-known ones, so let's get started.

Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies (1:48 @ 0:17)
O Holy Night (edited) (6:18 @ 1:59)
Deck the Halls B (4:29 @ 8:04)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (0:52 @ 12:21)
What Child Is This/ Greensleeves (Duet) (0:48 @ 13:09)

That was Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had an edited version of O Holy Night by Karen Savage for Librivox, which is available from The Internet Archive and is licensed as Public Domain.  After that was Deck the Halls B by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was We Wish You a Merry Christmas by the United States Marine Band, which is available from FreeMusicArchive and is licensed as Public Domain.  Finishing up was What Child Is This/ Greensleeves (Duet) by TubaChick23, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.

Although I very much appreciate all of the artists who have open licensed their music, I've got to send a special thank you this week to Kevin MacLeod for all the Christmas music he's got open licensed.  You'll probably notice his name coming up a lot this week.  He's got a ton of very good Christmas music in many different styles which went a long way toward making this episode very easy to put together.

I'd also like to thank all of the artists this week for licensing their music under very permissive licenses.  All of the music this week is Attribution or compatible, with a lot of it being Public Domain.  That's pretty awesome, and really helps resolve the problem from a few years ago where we had close to zero Christmas music recordings which were open licensed.  Now there's quite a bit, and it's all thanks to the artists who share their music.  So, thank you folks!

And with that, let's get back to listening to some more music.

Silent Night (2:14 @ 15:21)
Oh Christmas Tree (3:56 @ 17:32)
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (4:25 @ 21:21)
Carol of the Bells (3:38 @ 25:39)
Oh Holy Night (4:02 @ 29:12)
Silent night (0:52 @ 33:10)
O Come All Ye Faithful (Duet) (0:54 @ 33:59)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (3:30 @ 34:49)
Away in a Manger (2:04 @ 38:03)

That was Silent Night by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had Oh Christmas Tree by weihnachtsorama3000, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was Carol of the Bells by Roger MacNaughton Music, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had Oh Holy Night by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was Silent night by Phap Man Aaron Solomon and O Come All Ye Faithful (Duet) by TubaChick23, which are both available from SoundCloud and are licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was an edited version of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen by Diyan for Librivox, which is available from The Internet Archive and is licensed as Public Domain.  Finishing up was Away in a Manger by Chino Yoshio, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.

Today's app-of-the-day is fluid_table_tennis, a really interesting HTML5 game that's a little bit hard to describe.  Essentially, it's the classic ping-pong game with the added twist that each paddle can shoot a jet of fluid, creating little whirlpools and other flow patterns that dramatically change the trajectory of the ball.  You really kind of have to just try it.  It can be played single player or local two player and runs in a browser.   Check it out today at https://github.com/anirudhjoshi/fluid_table_tennis

Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.

A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading)
Up on a Housetop (1:10 @ 43:59)
Good King Wenceslaus (1:16 @ 45:04)
Jingle Bells (1:44 @ 46:18)
Here We Come A-Wassailing (1:43 @ 47:58)
Silent Night (2:29 @ 49:29)
WeWishU (0:44 @ 51:56)
The First Noel (2:32 @ 52:40)
Auld Lang Syne (2:16 @ 54:55)

That was Up on a Housetop by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had Good King Wenceslaus by the U.S. Army Band, which is available from Wikipedia and is licensed as Public Domain.  After that was Jingle Bells by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was an edited version of Here We Come A-Wassailing by Claire Goget and a few others for Librivox, which is available from The Internet Archive and is licensed as Public Domain.  Then we had Silent Night by the U.S. Army Chorus, which is available from Wikipedia and is licensed as Public Domain.  After that was WeWishU by DanHarderVO, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was an edited version of The First Noel by Claire Goget and a few others for Librivox, which is available from The Internet Archive and is licensed as Public Domain.  Finishing up was Auld Lang Syne by the United States Marine Band, which is available from Free Music Archive and is licensed as Public Domain.

So, that's all for today.  Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction.  So don't pirate it - replace it with something better.  Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies.  Support artists where your support actually counts.

This episode was made using Gentoo Linux, Xubuntu Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license.  Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies.  Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website.  Listen in next time for some nontraditional Christmas music.  See 'ya!

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