CHRISTMAS MUSIC

The origin of Christmas music is in ...... nah. Just kidding.

We don't do Christmas music like Snoopy's Christmas and Jingle Bells at our house

 although I like old Bing's White Christmas and The Little Drummer Boy has always been a favourite especially this version:

LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

When I was young, having been brought up as a Catholic, the classical carols like Adeste Fidelis appealed. Anything sung in Latin did and, as an Altar Boy, I really liked the mass in Latin. It was when they changed to English that the mystery and appeal waned.

Nowadays the little ritual we have here is for me to put on some 'Christmassy' music first thing on Christmas Day. This can be Gregorian chants sometimes and normally something from the Baroque era - Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Pachelbel etc.

This morning it was Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, Gluck's Dance of the blessed spirits, Handel's Pastoral Symphony from The Messiah and Pachelbel's Canon a 3 on a ground in D.

Magic.