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Re: OT: Code-switching in music

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Saturday, October 6, 2007, 16:47
>"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