Posted on 12/05/2018 12:00:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear.
I love Christmas carols - we learned all of them in school. I guess kids don’t learn the traditional carols in public schools anymore...
Oh we had the classics back then....
Joy to the World
The school's burned down
The teachers are all dead
We're looking for the principal
He's hanging on the flagpole
With a rope around his neck
With a rope around his neck
With a ro-oooope around his ne-eh-ehck
I’m sure we had some of those, too ;-)
Here's an exquisite rendition of the Wexford Carol by Allison Krauss and Yo-Yo Ma
It's on a mix so there's lots more there as well.
Amen 50x
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My favorite Christmas story is about my kids and their friends singing Carols in our neighborhood.
It began with my asking the kids to sing carols into an old tape-recorder I had. About 8 kids gathered around and they sounded great. I had a brainstorm! “Let’s go out tonight and sing carols to the neighbors - any money they give - you can buy your parents gifts - or give it to charity’
At night - we stopped at about 10 houses. The kids were happy - they earned about $25 and change.
Then the phone rang: “Mrs Sodpoodle - this is Officer Pooler. Were you out singing carols tonight?”
Me: “yes, we were.”
Officer: “Well, we had a complaint from a neighbor.”
Me: “I thought we sounded great.”
Officer: “Chuckle”
Me; “Did we need a permit? Because the children plan to give their money to charity. I really would like to apologize to the neighbor, could you tell me who it was who complained?”
AND HE DID - So the next day I marched over to her house with a receipt from the Salvation Army!!!!!!
She was shunned by the other parents after that!!!
We Christians stick together. LOLOl!
Being able to teach and sing traditional carols at Christmastime is one key reason why, after I got my music teacher certification, I chose to teach in a Catholic school.
A little dark.
How about
“Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg.
The Batmobile
has lost its wheel
the Joker got away”
I heard an episode of the Simpsons with Bart singing those exact words so I guess it is both non-regional and quite enduring (I am a Boomer).
:)
We used to go Christmas caroling as kids (organized by my mom; 5 of us, and we each got to invite a few friends, then would have doughnuts and cocoa back at the house afterward)and then in my early married life. No one ever offered us money, just usually cookies or treats (maybe we were awful singers?).
Hard to believe someone REPORTED you to police.
A fun way to sing Christmas Carols is next to a Salvation Army pot. The volunteer manning it usually will sing along and sometimes people going in and out of the store. I keep a few copies of my caroling book in the car.
She had a daughter who was not allowed to play with other children in the neighborhood - and complained about everything. Her husband left the reindeers on the roof all year round - no HOA;)
Never did determine if we broke some law by accepting money for singing carols. It is an old English custom, passed down thru my family.
There's nothing more adorable than a bunch of youngsters singing carols acapella.
I was once bashful. I started singing a cappella at 44, when I knew little about reading music.
I have now performed in professional ensembles in large stadiums.
Start simple, start local. Once you learn to sing a harmony, versus a melody, you are off and singing.
Johann Sebastian Bach and Martin Luther both played major roles in creating the choral tradition.
Bach’s 371 Chorales for the Lutheran Church provided the basis for what became Common Practice music.
I am grateful!!
We also learned a lot of old American folk songs. My favorite was ‘Oh Shenandoah’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUDJ2qjCqNo
Yes. Leading tone usage and such were derived from his chorales. There is a 97% consistency in his resolutions, cadences, et cetera, and it sounds good.
Theory follows practice. He made it up, and now it is considered standard practice for major-minor “Classical” (really starting with Baroque) harmony.
Fortunately, some of his chikdren, Wolfgang Mozart, and especially Felix Mendelssohn, helped preserve what became the backbone of modern “serious” music. It could have easily been lost.
That is so interesting! I know very little (read: almost nothing) about musical theory, but I love to sing and love to hear great choral singing.
It’s amazing how one creative person, or a very small handful of people, can have a huge, multi-generations-long impact on the music of their nation and their age, and beyond that their world and for all time, per omnia saecula saeclorum, amen.
These guys are as blessed as saints, in my thankful estimation.
Suffocation, jolly suffocation,
It's the game we love to play.
First you get a plastic bag,
Then you put it on your head.
Go to bed...
Wake up dead...hahahahaha...
Suffocation is the game we love to play.
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