Since today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, here's an >appropriate song:
https://soundcloud.com/garym03062/beacons-in-the-darkness
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Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Since today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, here's an
appropriate song:
https://soundcloud.com/garym03062/beacons-in-the-darkness
Thanks for the reminder. Music specific to the solstice is too rare.
Are there any summer solstice songs (or celebrations)?
Are there any summer solstice songs (or celebrations)?https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_treesong.htm
Since today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere,here's an >appropriate song:
https://soundcloud.com/garym03062/beacons-in-the-darkness
Thanks for the reminder. Music specific to the solstice is too rare.
In Message-ID:<spssv9$rqa$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Since today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, here's an
appropriate song:
https://soundcloud.com/garym03062/beacons-in-the-darkness
Thanks for the reminder. Music specific to the solstice is too rare.
Are there any summer solstice songs (or celebrations)?
I'm sure everyone here knows this, but in case: "Jingle Bells" was not intended to be a Christmas song.
Sleighs occupied somewhat of the same position that hot-rods did later,
and "sleighing songs" were A Thing.
Wikipedia has the less-known verses, along with academic puzzlement that
this not-particularly-interesting example is the one that survived.
I also learned "Jingle Bells" in Latin.
And one year, decades ago, I was in a mall that was playing music before
the department store doors opened, and it started "Jingle Bells," so I started singing "Tintinna, Tintinna, Tintinnabulum" (or some such)
and the woman standing next to me said, "Oh, you know it in the original Latin."
And one year, decades ago, I was in a mall that was playing music before
the department store doors opened, and it started "Jingle Bells," so I >started singing "Tintinna, Tintinna, Tintinnabulum" (or some such)
and the woman standing next to me said, "Oh, you know it in the original >Latin."
I'm sure everyone here knows this, but in case: "Jingle Bells" was not >intended to be a Christmas song.
Sleighs occupied somewhat of the same position that hot-rods did later,
and "sleighing songs" were A Thing.
Are there any summer solstice songs (or celebrations)?
Take a look at these Australian Christmas songs. They aren't exactly >solstice-specific, but they're summer songs.
https://blog.yellowoctopus.com.au/aussie-christmas-songs/
Thanks for the reminder. Music specific to the solstice is too rare.
For the longest night, the Halsway Carol
For the longest night, the Halsway Carol
Thank you. I hadn't heard of it. I'm glad I could find the lyrics.
The version I found on Youtube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPrBie18p1U> was very good, but,
like much choral music, I couldn't easily make out the words.
"Sleigh Ride" was not written as a Christmas song; it originally had
no words. It was composed by Leroy Anderson who also gave us The
Syncopated Clock (which someone later wrote words for) and The
Typewriter.
Thanks for the reminder. Music specific to the solstice is too rare.
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