I just posted the G K Chesterton Christmas song "The World's Desire" in my online hymnal (both in English and in Esperanto). The default tune (background music) is the German "In der Wiegen", but I am wondering about the alternative tune, which I have called "Van Pelt". This is the tune given in the OBC (1956-64 ed.), and while I know it's familiar, I can't think offhand what text I'm using to hearing sung to it. I would like to give it its proper title, since "Van Pelt" won't mean anything to anybody — it is the name of the Atlanta clergyman who recommended it to the OBC editors as a tune for the Chesterton text. The MIDI is my own arrangement (though the second half is mostly very similar to Martin Shaw's arrangement in OBC.

Liland

Online Christmas Carols in Esperanto