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Christmas music survey
- Thread starter Shaul
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Yes that one is quite good too - and also has a good descant, which I sang at the same carol service all those years ago. Though the English translation does not quite fit the music: "Ve-ery God be / gotten not created."
I could not open the attachment, unfortunately. But there are some that just do not lend themselves to English with the same depth of spirit.
This hymns are my favorite traditional Christmas songs and were my favorite of the Midnight Mass songs to sing and hear:
I quite enjoy Annie Lennox's Christmas album, too. She chose to focus on traditional hymns instead of the secular stuff and that was a great choice:
“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” was actually written to honor not the baby Jesus but the printing press? O.K., not the lyrics—although points to anyone who immediately tried to reinterpret the song as a crypto-Enlightenment hymn to Johannes Gutenberg. But as New Jersey conductor and choir director Colin Britt explains in this week’s eponymous episode of “Hark!,” the tune that would be grafted onto a Christmas poem to form one of our most popular Christmas carols was originally written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the printing press. “Fatherland, in your area, the gold day dawned! Gutenberg, the German man lit the torch!” It just rolls off the lips, doesn’t it?
There’s a reason you love to belt out ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’ | America Magazine