[Magdalen] Some more Advent prep

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I had a very nice cd of a young women's group in Germany.  I was quite
delighted to hear them singing songs we have as hymns and they seem to
regard as folksongs.  I could tell that the German words were essentially
the same as well. It's very nice to see the continuity of real music over
time.  I heard of one christmas folks ong that the jacket or some
commentary stated goes back to a source in the 1500s.  I don't recall the
precise details anymore.

I recently was looking for arrangements of "Woodbird" and found it in an
anthology of folksongs, sung by tenor Peter Schreier, with guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnE3iQAvU4

Of course our hymn arrangement is much, much, much more square and
straight. Still the same tune though.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rummaging around in the Advent files on YouTube yielded this one from
> Sweden, although the tune is said to be 16th century Danish. There is also
> a version sung as a hymn by a charismatic congregation in Sweden, so I
> guess it isn't always done this way! The translation of the title is
> "Rejoice, Bride of Christ!"
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuiR-aSuMj0
>