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Archive for November 15th, 2011

Good King Wenceslas

This melody is said to have originated in the 13th century with the pretty title ‘Tempus Adest Floridum’ (’The Time For Flowering’) and as such was a spring carol. It appeared in the famous Finnish collection of 1582 entitled ‘Piae Contiones’ and it wasn’t until the 19th century that it gained it’s present title, along [...]