• Winter solstice

    From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 21 10:47:52 2021
    Since today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, here's an appropriate song:

    https://soundcloud.com/garym03062/beacons-in-the-darkness


    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Wed Dec 22 21:33:04 2021
    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)?

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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  • From Lee Gold XP@21:1/5 to Arthur T. on Wed Dec 22 20:36:59 2021
    On 12/22/2021 6:33 PM, Arthur T. wrote:
    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)?

    https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_treesong.htm

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  • From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to Lee Gold XP on Thu Dec 23 01:14:16 2021
    In Message-ID:<sq0udc$tsa$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lee Gold XP <lee.gold@ca.rr.com> wrote:

    Are there any summer solstice songs (or celebrations)?

    https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_treesong.htm

    Thank you. Among other things, I'd forgotten that, in other cultures
    and other times, the solstice was considered mid-summer rather than
    the beginning of it.

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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  • From Rafe Culpin@21:1/5 to Arthur T. on Thu Dec 23 08:27:00 2021
    In article <cqn7sgpmi9n14vfjq0jflt6om78d0duhn2@4ax.com>, arthur@munged.invalid (Arthur T.) 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.

    For the longest night, the Halsway Carol

    --
    To reply email rafe, at the address filk co uk
    Information on filk in the UK: http://filk.co.uk/

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Arthur T. on Thu Dec 23 08:56:33 2021
    On 12/22/21 9:33 PM, Arthur T. wrote:
    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)?


    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/

    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Joe Kesselman@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 24 10:52:33 2021
    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.

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  • From Lee Gold XP@21:1/5 to Joe Kesselman on Fri Dec 24 09:11:57 2021
    On 12/24/2021 7:52 AM, Joe Kesselman wrote:
    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.

    Back when I took Classical Latin in secular school, we were told to memorize our choice of a number of things in Latin.

    I still remember the start of "America" in Latin.
    Te cano patria, candida libera, te referit.

    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."

    I didn't want to embarass her by telling her how Very Wrong
    she was, so I just smiled, and then the doors opened, and we went in.

    --Lee

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Lee Gold XP on Fri Dec 24 13:40:25 2021
    On 12/24/21 12:11 PM, Lee Gold XP wrote:
    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."

    But does it scan to "paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde"?

    Someone did a song about a kind of gladiatorial tournament called a
    "one-horse open slay." I never heard the song, just a description of it.

    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to Lee Gold XP on Fri Dec 24 14:13:41 2021
    In Message-ID:<sq4v0u$c60$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lee Gold XP <lee.gold@ca.rr.com> wrote:

    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 know someone who heard the theme from MASH playing in an elevator
    and started singing along. Remember: its title is Suicide Is Painless
    and the words weren't used on the TV show. People asked if they were
    okay.

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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  • From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to Joe Kesselman on Fri Dec 24 14:14:29 2021
    In Message-ID:<sq4qc3$ec6$1@dont-email.me>,
    Joe Kesselman <keshlam.cat.nospam@verizon.net> wrote:

    I'm sure everyone here knows this, but in case: "Jingle Bells" was not >intended to be a Christmas song.

    It's been noted that many "Christmas carols" were written by Jewish
    songwriters in Tin Pan Alley.

    Sleighs occupied somewhat of the same position that hot-rods did later,
    and "sleighing songs" were A Thing.

    "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.

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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  • From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Fri Dec 24 14:14:11 2021
    In Message-ID:<sq1v6j$bd6$1@dont-email.me>,
    Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:

    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/

    I haven't listened to them all yet. But *anything* that's not the
    U.S. earworm carols is welcome (well, almost anything).

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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  • From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to Rafe Culpin on Fri Dec 24 14:13:52 2021
    In Message-ID:<memo.20211223082704.3732B@rafecupl.merula.co.uk>, nospam@see.sig.to.reply (Rafe Culpin) wrote:

    Thanks for the reminder. Music specific to the solstice is too rare.

    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.

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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  • From Rafe Culpin@21:1/5 to Arthur T. on Fri Dec 24 23:27:00 2021
    In article <195csghslbmqheqp9cvqj5giceu0fgq07v@4ax.com>, arthur@munged.invalid (Arthur T.) wrote:

    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.

    Lots of information on it here: https://halsway.musicwebdesign.nl/

    --
    To reply email rafe, at the address filk co uk
    Information on filk in the UK: http://filk.co.uk/

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Arthur T. on Fri Dec 24 20:30:15 2021
    On 12/24/21 2:14 PM, Arthur T. wrote:
    "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.

    The words I once heard with it mentioned a birthday party but nothing
    about Christmas.

    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Paul Rubin@21:1/5 to Arthur T. on Sun Jan 2 20:09:21 2022
    Arthur T. <arthur@munged.invalid> writes:
    Thanks for the reminder. Music specific to the solstice is too rare.

    Here's one that I like, a well known one by Jethro Tull. Not filk
    though. It's about the winter solstice.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJS9TjjHxx8

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