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Thread #38425   Message #542978
Posted By: Haruo
05-Sep-01 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Identify tune in Oxford Book of Carols
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Identify tune in Oxford Book of Car
Speaking of which, anybody know the last two verses of Good King Wenceslaus in Esperanto? (I'm just kidding, of course, but as long as the thread had drifted in that direction, I am indeed missing them, and it ain't half the fine moral lesson it's meant to be without them.) And incidentally, the tune in question (GKW, not AG or FOLSMJ much less the one I call Van Pelt from OBC) is properly Tempus Adest Floridum (there's an anonymous anglicization (title: "Flower Carol"; incipit "Spring has now unwrapped the flowers") in OBC that is also in The Cyber Hymnal along with the Latin original); it's actually a May Day carol, not a Christmas (or Boxing Day) carol at all...

FWIW

Liland
who felt pretty silly when he got home and listened to them side by side ;-(