Merry Christmas Eve!
We went caroling this evening, as we do every year, and I was thinking about how some of these songs are pretty difficult for the average person to sing skill-wise.
First, any song that tried to make the word “heavenly” into two syllables like “hea-vnly”. It always ends up with everyone clunkily squeezing way too many consonants and sounds cacophonous.
Another one is “Angels We Have Heard On High” where they sing “Glooooooooria”. That song really hits the top and bottom of everyone’s vocal range, no matter what key it’s in, and the last “i-a” is always too low. It’s a beautiful song, but for the average person to sing in church or wherever, it’s logistically very difficult.
In general, any kind of repetitive song like “Deck the Halls” or “Jingle Bells”, those are hard because it’s hard for people to keep track of all the repeating lyrics.
At the end of the day, the best Christmas songs are the ones sung with others and with festive holiday spirit, even if they’re basically sung in an accidental round and in 7 different keys.
Happy Holidays and thanks for reading!
Holly
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