Re: OT: Code-switching in music

On 10/6/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> [snip]
>  > After reading some of the responses, I was reminded of _In dulci
>  > jubilo_, a Christmas carol which (at least in Germany) is commonly
>  > sung half in Latin, half in German:
>  >
>  > In dulci jubilo
>  > Nun singet und seid froh
>  > Uns'res Herzens Wonne
>  > Liegt in praesepio
>  > Und leuchtet als die Sonne
>  > Alpha es et O
>  > Alpha es et O
>
> Darn it! I'd thought of that one too, and you beat me too it   :)
>
> but you've left out a line, surely. Before 'Alpha es et O' comes:
> 'Matris in gremio'
Quite possibly; it certainly sounds familiar.

Just goes to show how well I remember traditional songs. (Though I
think that knowing only the first verse of traditional songs, if that,
is par for the course. Certainly seems that way in Germany: many more
people know the first verse of a given traditional song than will know
any subsequent ones, whether it's Christmas carols or children's songs
or what-have-you.)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>