..... That wasn't that hard... I s'pect you're a bit older than me, but yeah...
And I know a bardling in England that *sings* the original, too... she's mostly into newer stuff (1750s forward) but she can go all the way back when she wants to...
In fact, Uni's Madrigals sang some old songs and carols in Middle English or Latin. They had real garb, too, one of the girls' mothers was into historic recreation. In the holiday season they go all around town singing at churches and other schools and such.
Latin! I've sung in Latin a couple of times. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!
(I also love things sung in their original languages when the "familiar" version is in English.... my favourite holiday album is Heather Dale's Spark, in which she sings in English, French, Irish Gaelic, Cornish, Welsh, German, and EIGHT VERSES of "Adeste Fideles" in Latin (oddly, the song is not that old! Written and added to over time between 1749 and 1850)... not on this album, but she also does the Huron Carol, written by a French Jesuit missionary, Jean de Brébeuf, in Wendat, then in French, then in English... )
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Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-07-02 06:53 pm (UTC)And I know a bardling in England that *sings* the original, too... she's mostly into newer stuff (1750s forward) but she can go all the way back when she wants to...
Language skills and memory, ain't it fun?
Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-07-02 07:02 pm (UTC)Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-07-02 07:38 pm (UTC)(I also love things sung in their original languages when the "familiar" version is in English.... my favourite holiday album is Heather Dale's Spark, in which she sings in English, French, Irish Gaelic, Cornish, Welsh, German, and EIGHT VERSES of "Adeste Fideles" in Latin (oddly, the song is not that old! Written and added to over time between 1749 and 1850)... not on this album, but she also does the Huron Carol, written by a French Jesuit missionary, Jean de Brébeuf, in Wendat, then in French, then in English... )