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ame three carols where the word “winter” is sung in the verses. - Identify the carol in which the word “snow” appears five times in the same verse.
- In which carol do the words “wondering” and “wondrous” appear?
- Which two words rhyme with “chime” in Ding Dong Merrily on High?
- In which Christmas Carol, does one “strike the harp”?
- In the twelve days of Christmas, what was sent by “my true love” on the 9th day of Christmas.
- Identify the carol from which this metre is taken from the 1st and 3rd lines of each verse. “pom pom – pompom pom pom pom pom”.
- In which carol are the cows depicted as “twitching the sweet hay”?
- Name the two composers who scored separate musical setting of “In the Bleak mid-winter”.
- In which 15th century verse/carol is the birth of the baby Jesus described “as dew in April”. (Leonard Berkeley was commissioned to set this to music in the 1960’s)
- Name this macaronic 15th century carol which celebrates the sacrifice of a wild animal. (No Janus, this has nothing to do with macaroni.)
So there you go; encouraged by Boadicea for posting a Quiz and admonished by Christina for failing to acknowledge her musical talents.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Please allow Christina to have a stab at this before posting any answers.
Hi PNG
Assuming it’s the usual rules of 1 each (to start with at least). No 2 is ‘In the Bleak Mid Winter’.
Sorry. Off the mark too quickly, which is very unusual for me. Over to CO.
Thanks for this PG!
I’ll abide by your comment re CO – but I suspect the only ones I know will have been answered by the time I get up tomorrow morning!
Hey John! It’s three carols with the word winter!
Yes John you lightning off the blocks. Strangely, quite a few of my friends (choristers) knew the verse but the Carol didn’t immediately come to them. You must have been eating porridge this morning. Maybe see you later on! And yes, if and when answers are forthcoming, they should be restricted to allow CO to have a bash.
Hi Boadicea.
True but that’s question 1. I answered Question 2. Smiley thing.
OK, PNG.
Team M now have all the answers to our own satisfaction, except for 7. We only had to google one of them.
Can Mrs M please have a clue for Number 7? ‘Assuming that the dash is a rest, is it a minim rest or a crotchet rest?
Happy new year from Oz – it being 00.21!
May I suggest PG that you set some time limit for CO to read this…
… and wearing my hard-hat ( 🙂 ) as ‘rule-maker’ – might I say the JM is right that the usual rule of initially one answer per person should apply.
Cheers !
Sir, sir, me sir! I know! 😉
John, number 7 – the second ‘pom’ is a dotted crotchet and the third ‘pom’ is a quaver beat.
Janus – you know ALL of them? Or you know number 7?
Boadicea – to all comers as from 6 p.m. GMT.
7 Don’t quite understand the question, but if you want plenty of poms I suggest the Little Drummer Boy?
As JM knows the rest I’ll leave him to it.
Cheers.
CO – Not the Little Drummer Boy. (Pom is only used to replace syllables. But I think Janus has it.) And maybe the question is not well put.
JM? 😛
11 is of course Yankee Doodle Dandy….😜
Hi PapaG, a Happy New Year to you
Got the easy ones (5 & 6) and half of 4 ???? 🙂
Good quiz, you can do more of these, they’re good fun.
… 🙂 …
6:22 – Good try Janus and a jolly good song too! But no.
HI Soutie and a Happy New Year to you too. Which ‘half’ do you have in question 4?
4) rhyme?
5) deck the halls with holly
6)
strippersdancing girls😉
Time?
Naeh, it’s prime (as in rib, paint and minister)
4) rhyme and prime;
5) Deck the hall with boughs of holly;
6) yeah Soutie we wish!
Apologies JM – but it was well, well past midnight here – and I had been celebrating NY with the usual beverages … 🙂
I can’t join in – since the only answers I now know I had to do a ‘cheat-google’
… many thanks PG for this 🙂
A Good New Year to you PNG. Echoed by Mrs M.
Who offers ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’ for No. 7. But only if the dash is irrelevant and the last ‘pom’ is a rest.
This means absolutely nothing to me but she says that it should make sense to you.
She also says, by the way, that No. 10 is usually written as ‘dewe in Aprylle’ and that it’s one of her favourites.
Absolutely correct Mrs M – a favourite of mine too!
As for number 7, suppose I re-wrote the metre as “da daa – didaa da da da da” though I fear I’m digging a grave for myself here. Last and obvious clue will be posted at 18:00 hrs GMT.
Final clue to number 7 = washing socks at night.
Taxi! . .
You tease, PH!
Any other competitions awaiting judges’ verdicts? 😉
Good evening, PNG
OK. Mrs M now has the answer but is definitely not happy!
Apparently, she usually sings that one to ‘Winchester Old’ and does not, therefore, recognise your ‘poms’. She is also still not happy about the dash which she holds to have been a snare and a delusion. .
‘While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night’.
Correction and apologies, PNG. ‘Winchester Old is your version. She can’t remember the name of the one she sings..
It’s a worry!
Apologies to Mrs M – the question was put in as a tease and was NOT well thought out. (Originally I played the bass line and invited listeners to guess the carol.)
Janus – yes; results of Poetry Competition will be published by 10 a.m. tomorrow.
JM – if the title tune comes to mind please let me know!
Mrs M’s compliments, PNG. It’s the Arthur Sullivan version with which she is familiar. As also often used for ‘It Came Upon the Midnight Clear’.
Happy New Year Mr. Mackie: That’s a relief, I thought for a moment it might be “Cranbrook”.
A Good New Year to you too, LW.
Nowt wrong with ‘Cranbrook’ when one is hatless on the heath.
And, having just sounded it out, I can see how it could serve for sedentary, nocturnal flock-observing ovine operatives. .
Phew !!
Having always sung the shepherds’ sock-washing song to the same tune, Boadicea and I were relieved to find that it was in fact “Winchester Old” – hence fully approved for Poms and their Aussie derivatives.
Having visited Ilkla as a child – sans chapeau – I was a little shocked to discover that the tune could be varied from the one I had learnt, which also, apparently, had a name. How disconcerting. 😦
However, this put me in mind of a little ditty (not a carol) that we learned in ‘O’ level Latin. If memory serves, it went something like this –
Natu in summo monte in Tennessee
Viridissima civitas in patria liberi …
Who was it?
Bearsy a very Good New Year to you.
I got his chapeau for Christmas when I was eight.
Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
That’s the chap! Possibly an ancestor of James T Kirk and his final front ear? 🙂
A very Happy New Year to you too.
Nice Latin memory, Bearsy. ☺️