Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Why Do We Sing Christmas Carols?



Well? Explanations and Histories of Some Favorites and because I can be Fair and Balanced too, Tin Hat Explanations of Christmas Carols as an example: Some are Papist Plots others were written by, gasp! Unitarians!!

Hate Silent Night? Love It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, go and see how your favorites stack up against each other Christmas Carols ranked.

Tired of slogging through O Little Town Of Bethlehem in English? want to slog through it in French? The same old Christmas Carols in different, cooler languages. Tired of slogging all together and just want to listen? MIDI files of Christmas Carols

Everything sounds better in Latin:

RUDOLPHUS, THE RED-NOSED REINDEER

Reno erat Rudolphus
Nasum rubrum habebat;
Si quando hunc videbas,
Hunc candere tu dicas.

Omnes renores alii
Semper hunc deridebant;
Cum misero Rudolpho
In ludis non ludebant.

Santus Nicholas dixit
Nocte nebulae,
"Rudolphe, naso claro
Nonne currum tu duces?"

Tum renores clambant,
"Rudolphe, delectus es?
Cum naso rubro claro
Historia descendes!"
more Latin here

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