{"id":966,"date":"2019-12-17T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T09:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=966"},"modified":"2019-12-17T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T03:46:13","slug":"sounds-of-the-season-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/12\/17\/sounds-of-the-season-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds of the season, day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Boar&#8217;s Head&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boar's_Head_Carol\">Wikipedia<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXMRUPe3IOA\">YouTube<\/a>) can be made very subtle and pretty, as in the arrangement I&#8217;ve linked to, but at bottom it&#8217;s a silly song. Written half in Latin doggerel, it begs to be belted out with gusto: &#8220;Let us <em>servire cantico!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife&#8217;s family had printed packets of sheet music, so singing carols always meant picking from the ones in the book. When she moved to Albany, we went on-line to look for sheet music. Sending links back and forth, we sang from our open laptops. This led to us discovering lots of great holiday songs, but The Boar&#8217;s Head is perhaps my favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blairthornburgh.com\/the-only-christmas-carols-that-are-any-good-a-definitive-and-absolute-list-fight-me\/\">Blair Thornburgh<\/a> isn&#8217;t far from the mark in calling it &#8220;Almost the absolute best carol ever written.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-boar.png?resize=640%2C309&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a boar carrying a tray of food\" class=\"wp-image-965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-boar.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-boar.png?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Boar&#8217;s Head&#8221; (Wikipedia\/YouTube) can be made very subtle and pretty, as in the arrangement I&#8217;ve linked to, but at bottom it&#8217;s a silly song. Written half in Latin doggerel, it begs to be belted out with gusto: &#8220;Let us servire cantico!&#8220; My wife&#8217;s family had printed packets of sheet music, so singing carols always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/12\/17\/sounds-of-the-season-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sounds of the season, day 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,32],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-cetera","tag-music","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-fA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}