Anyone else used to sing Christmas songs in Latin?

[RosieH]

Tinniunt, tinniunt, tintinabula - altogether now...

or Rudolphus naso rubro, naso nitidissimo...

Why is it still in my head after 20 years? When the best Christmas song ever is quite clearly

[monica]

Rosie I can sing in latin, been practicing Ave Maria,cant get that out of my head either

[ClareC]

We used to have to learn a christmas carol in latin every christmas at my school! Angelus et Virginum is the one that immediately springs to mind! Odd how you dont't forget (although my latin spelling isn't as it once was ;-) )

[HonaloochieB]

With the greatest respect RosieH and I do of course regard you as a queen of your sex and everything, but uppus buttus cum coconutus if that's the greatest Christmas song ever.

The greatest Christmas song is A Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues, it is so because it can be heard at any time of year and still be enjoyed for the fine song it is, but heard in December it becomes 'of the season'.

Bleak, hopeful, argumentative, joyful, optimistic and with a tune that you lends itself to dancing a woman around the floor and sending her skirts a-skirling.

With added NYPD choir. What more could a person want from a Christmas song?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Don't be silly - Noddy Holder trumps everyone.

Gloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-ria Hosanna in Excelsis.

[RosieH]

I AM a queen of my sex, and you, sir, are incorrect.

[HonaloochieB]

No, madam, tonight I am merely incoherent but in the morning I will cohere while you shall still be wrong.

[giggirl]

Rosie I think, if pushed, I can probably still sing the entire bloody mass in Latin. How come I remember that, after all these years, and yet I can't remember what I've logged on to do just now?

[RosieH]

Mass was so much more fun..?

[giggirl]

Mass was so much more fun when you could drone on in Latin with only a very vague idea what any of it actually meant.

[dulwichmum]

I love singing in Latin:

Remember this little ditty?

"Veni Creator Spiritus,

mentes tuorum visita,

imple superna gratia

quae tu creasti pectora" (sang while flouncing around the kitchen island in the light of a Diptyque candle, glass of Chablis in hand...)

[giggirl]

Lady Gaga eat your heart out

[dulwichmum]

But I am not wearing clingfilm and margarine... yet!

[HonaloochieB]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> But I am not wearing clingfilm and margarine...

> yet!

Oh Jesus, just chuck in welding goggles, there's her next photoshoot.

[ClareC]

Was it just the Christmas Carols or did anyone else get to follow the life of Caecilius and his household too in Pompei? I particularly remember Coquus, the randy cook forever being after the poor slave girl!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

5 years as an altar boy, what do you think!

[Moos]

We rehearsed Poulenc's Videntes Stellam last night, absolutely beautiful. Along with practising descants, it made me feel really Christmassy!

[Sue]

Personnent hodie.

Adeste fideles.

Also Silent Night in German, for some reason.

Etc :)

[RosieH]

Ah yes, all good and lovely carols, but I was thinking of more general songs (not carols, which you would expect to be in Latin).

The two I mentioned were Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - was our end of term "treat"

[Sue]

Sorry :-$

[SimonM]

Yeah, it was always "Adeste Fideles" & "Stille Nacht" at my school too. We had great fun mispronouncing the latter...:)

[SteveT]

I remember some psuedo-latin quotes from my mis-spent youth...

Nil desperandum carborundum illegitimo = don't let the bar studs grind you down.

Non seductress asbestos = F&?k you I'm fireproof.

The only Latin song I remember at school started:- Gaudi our mus igitor juveness dom suomuss.... I never understood a word but enjoyed the tune and singing those weird lyrics in a monkey hear, monkey sing, fashion.

Apologies to all the studious ones reading this who recognise the lamentable phonetic style, Latin mis-spelling.

[SimonM]

Gaudeamus etc etc = So let us rejoice whilst we are young

Caesar adsum iam forte

Pompey aderat

Caesar sic in omnibus

Pompey sic inat

[SteveT]

I am impressed SimonM that is the first time I ever knew what it meant. Good man.