Re: OT: Code-switching in music

>"Elyse M. Grasso" <emgrasso@...> wrote:
>I have an old vinyl album "Medieval English Carols" still in storage
>somewhere. The text on the back stated that the original meaning
>of 'carol' was a song including both Latin and the vernacular (often
>with the Latin part in the chorus). That's why you get things like the
>Agincourt Carol, which is a carol by that definition and has nothing
>whatsoever to do with Christmas.
AHD: Middle English 'carolen', from Old French 'caroler',
from 'carole', a carol, perhaps from Late Latin 'choraula', choral
song, from Latin 'choraula', choraulês', one who accompanies a chorus,
from Greek 'khoraulês', from 'choraulein,' to accompany a
chorus: 'khoros, CHORUS + 'aulein',  to play the flute, from 'aulos',
pipe flute.

No mention of the macaronic nature of a carol, but that doesn't make it
not so.

Charlie