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Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
« on: January 19, 2024, 02:04:45 PM »
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    • Very ancient and traditional. Written in the 1500's.

    Gaudete, gaudete!
    Christus est natus
    Ex Maria virgine,
    gaudete!

    Rejoice, rejoice!
    Christ is born
    Of the Virgin Mary –
    Rejoice!


    Tempus adest gratiae
    Hoc quod optabamus,
    Carmina laetitiae
    Devote reddamus.

    The time of grace has come—
    What we have wished for;
    Songs of joy
    Let us give back faithfully.


    Deus homo factus est
    Natura mirante,
    Mundus renovatus est
    a Christo regnante.

    God has become man,
    With nature marvelling,
    The world has been renewed
    By the reigning Christ.


    Ezechielis porta
    Clausa pertransitur,
    Unde lux est orta
    Salus invenitur.

    The closed gate of Ezekiel
    Is passed through,
    Whence the light is risen;
    Salvation has been found.


    Ergo nostra contio
    Psallat iam in lustro;
    Benedicat Domino:
    Salus Regi nostro.

    Therefore, let our assembly
    Now sing in brightness
    Let it bless the Lord:
    Greetings to our King.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudete
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #1 on: January 19, 2024, 02:06:45 PM »
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    • How much do I win?  :laugh1:
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #2 on: January 19, 2024, 02:09:47 PM »
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    • I was trying to think of a good clickbait title. I'm sure a few of us know this one. But before 2020, I had never heard it before. That is "in all my travels", and I'm very well-traveled when it comes to music.

    So yeah -- even among those who think they know most Christmas songs, they very well might not know this one.
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #3 on: January 19, 2024, 02:21:48 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on January 19, 2024, 02:06:45 PM
    How much do I win?  :laugh1:
    Do I get a cut of the winnings for knowing the hymn?
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #4 on: January 19, 2024, 02:25:21 PM »
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    • So far we have two ex-seminarians who knew it, and one ex-seminarian (myself) highly into Chant, highly into music, who was in the Schola at the seminary, who just discovered it a couple years ago.
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #5 on: January 19, 2024, 02:52:21 PM »
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    • I remember hearing this back in 2006 or so, at the SSPX chapel in Carmichael.
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #6 on: January 19, 2024, 03:51:53 PM »
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    • :pray:
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #7 on: January 19, 2024, 03:52:26 PM »
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    • It's a great carol. I've known a number of chapels that did a version along the lines of this:

    https://youtu.be/190y_yUzbSM?si=G82qlwse_0V2I3QH&t=11
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #8 on: January 19, 2024, 04:20:18 PM »
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    • Off direct topic, but more Christmas carols/hymns from about the same general time period as Gaudete, arranged for voice and/or historically accurate instruments. Album "Nowells Delight", by early music group Piffaro. Not sure how to share whole playlist, but here is first track and a few others:



    https://youtu.be/Y-Zzbn97d3U?si=AtuPWa3ORgHSIYYG

    https://youtu.be/mt-cO21VqvM?si=54fkYl8f-ZlppSSn

    https://youtu.be/BYk6oO0G_oE?si=yRrflPw2YnbBZcxY

    https://youtu.be/0buyUVmTvnA?si=5nss4LOeHVdrVoie


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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #9 on: January 19, 2024, 06:09:21 PM »
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    • Sang the Gaudete hymn - albeit at a much higher tempo - at Christmas. Also long aware of boar's head hymn. :cowboy:

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    Qui non est alius
    Qui pugnet pro nobis
    Nisi  tu Deus noster

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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #10 on: January 20, 2024, 12:40:52 AM »
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    • Quote from: Matthew on January 19, 2024, 02:25:21 PM
    So far we have two ex-seminarians who knew it, and one ex-seminarian (myself) highly into Chant, highly into music, who was in the Schola at the seminary, who just discovered it a couple years ago.
    I am familiar with it, but I didn't hear it in seminary, at least not that I can remember. I became family with it during my former employment for an FSSP church with a polyphonic choir. One of my favorites.
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #11 on: January 20, 2024, 08:05:56 AM »
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    • Quote from: hansel on January 19, 2024, 04:20:18 PM
    Off direct topic, but more Christmas carols/hymns from about the same general time period as Gaudete, arranged for voice and/or historically accurate instruments. Album "Nowells Delight", by early music group Piffaro. Not sure how to share whole playlist, but here is first track and a few others:



    https://youtu.be/Y-Zzbn97d3U?si=AtuPWa3ORgHSIYYG

    https://youtu.be/mt-cO21VqvM?si=54fkYl8f-ZlppSSn

    https://youtu.be/BYk6oO0G_oE?si=yRrflPw2YnbBZcxY

    https://youtu.be/0buyUVmTvnA?si=5nss4LOeHVdrVoie
    To be sung when you bring the roasted pigs head to the table for the feast 
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #12 on: January 20, 2024, 01:00:55 PM »
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    • Quote from: Matthew on January 19, 2024, 02:09:47 PM
    I was trying to think of a good clickbait title. I'm sure a few of us know this one. But before 2020, I had never heard it before. That is "in all my travels", and I'm very well-traveled when it comes to music.

    So yeah -- even among those who think they know most Christmas songs, they very well might not know this one.
    You won the bet with me, I never heard of it.
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #13 on: January 20, 2024, 10:22:33 PM »
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    • I sang this song in Highschool Choir.
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    Re: Bet you don't know this Christmas hymn
    « Reply #14 on: January 21, 2024, 06:00:42 AM »
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    • It became popular, and much better known, here in the UK when the folk band 'Steeleye Span' released a 45 rpm single of it in 1972.

    A later recording .  
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