The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Et barn er født i Betlehem (Danish)

Oops! COMM 150 and 337 students at Benedictine please note: I posted this item to our class blog by accident - it belongs on another blog of mine, called Hogfiddle at http://hogfiddle.blogspot.com/, which is for research on articles I write about music. This one is a "s----y first draft" of a post about a Christmas carol from Denmark that I'm trying to learn called "Et barn er født i Betlehem." It means "A child is born in Bethlehem," and, no, it won't be on the test!

In the Danish Psalm Book (den Danske Salmebog), No. ____

Erling Jan Sørensens klaver-arrangement med improvisation af forspil og efterspil og spillet af Erling selv. http://www.erlingmusic.dk/




Et Barn er født i Bethlehem - Radiokoret 1941
Medlemmer af Radiokoret
Dirigent: Martellius Lundqvist
Orgel: Palle Alsfelt

Optaget i Matthæuskirken i København




Et barn er født i Bethlehem - Statsradiofoniens Pigekor 1944
Statsradiofoniens Pigekor. Dirigent: Lis Jacobsen 1944



Et Barn er født i Bethlehem - Aage Thygesen 1931
Operasanger Aage Thygesen, 1931







http://youtu.be/0tZ-1KFF6lM Koren Glomma synger en dansk julesang med norsk uttale på Julefest 2007, Cluj-Napoca
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2 comments:

Kaitlyn Keen said...

These videos are very touching. Even without being able to understand the language, I can understand the message.

Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 8:05:00 PM CDT
dave maziarz said...

the videos carried a lot of meaning. i didnt understand a word of it so i tried to look at their body language, hand motions, etc

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 2:47:00 PM CDT

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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.