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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1973
Page
10
A brief piece recalls Christmas as a holy day marked by rejoicing prayer and private devotions. It notes angelic heralds to shepherds and a guiding star as sources of the Christmas greeting and mentions earlier solstice greetings by Northern European Teutonic tribes.
In this century hymns and carols for Nativity were composed by Peter Warlock and Gustav Holst among others. Many hymns were set to music by classic composers. An example is While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Nahum Tate. Music for this came Thursday from Handel’s opera Shoes.
The article notes Jingle Bells as a top sung carol by James Pierpont of Massachusetts in the 1850s and discusses alternate carol lines. It includes bees humming legends on Christmas Eve and a palm tree myth linking twelve parts to the twelve months. It mentions Santa substitutes like the Julbock, a Danish goat gift bearer.
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