Lecture
MERRILY OH HIGH!
The history of the English Christmas carol
20 December 2021, Monday 6.00-7.00 pm

September 21st, 2021

The Christmas Carol is a song that celebrates the birth of Christ and emerged in the Middle Ages, around the time that Geoffrey Chaucer (1340s-1400) was writing his celebrated works.  Rather like folksongs, Christmas carols are found in every period, their words and tunes developing and changing with the character of successive generations.

The lecture tells the history of the English Christmas carol and among those performed and discussed are: The Boar’s Head Carol which alludes to a legend involving the 15th century Oxford Scholar, John Copcot, who after defending himself against the attack of a wild boar by forcing a book of Aristotle down its throat, severed the head and impaled it on his staff as he trudged to Horspath Church to celebrate Christmas Mass; I Saw Three Ships, which recalls the three Wise Men whose mortal remains made their final journey to Cologne Cathedral in 1166; and Ding Dong Merrily on High! which was originally a popular dance in 16th century France, which involved the man tossing his lady partner high into the air!  This is a live lecture delivered from the piano

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The lecture is illustrated with live musical performance

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