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Thread #42524   Message #620357
Posted By: masato sakurai
03-Jan-02 - 10:35 AM
Thread Name: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
Subject: RE: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
"Flower Carol" is in The Oxford Book of Carols (1928, no. 99), with this interesting comment attached:

This is a free translation, with a doxology, of the words proper to the melody of No. 136, 'Tempus adest floridum', the Spring carol which Neale unfortunately turned into a Christmas carol by writing his rendering of the legend of 'Good King Wenceslas'. We have therefore reprinted the proper tune here, with the suggestion that it should be sung as a Spring carol, and that 'Good King Wenceslas' might be gradually dropped. (p. 207)

Interestingly again, the underlined words was deleted from the 1964 reset edition (p. 215).

~Masato