I’m pretty sure I first heard this song in a pub in Adelaide, where my university choir used to rejoice in making up silly lyrics for the verses. Any rhyming couplet with twelve syllables per line would do – I…
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Advent Calendar Day 16: Gaudete!
Sometimes, I like to be a really evil choirmistress, and last Wednesday was one of those times. With our first performance on Thursday, I grinned evilly at my little work choir and suggested we give Gaudete – a piece we…
Advent Calendar Day 16: Gaudete! (Trad., sung by Mediaeval Baebes)
Today is Gaudete Sunday (Gaudete is Latin for “Rejoice”), which is notable for the fact that the liturgical colour is Rose, which means priests in pink vestments and great swathes of hot pink fabric draped over the purple that was…