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[darcydodo]

You are 'Adam Lay Y Bounden'! Ah, you appear to be
something of a Christmas snob. Whether you are
a musician who has sung one carol service too
many, or merely someone with very highbrow
views on music and culture, you shudder at the
thought of piped music in lifts, wince at
endless repetitions of Jingle Bells and have
put out a contract on Rudolph. While you agree
that some of the well-known carols are lovely,
you are more drawn by the really obscure
medieval carols, or the ones arranged by Bach.
You also know parodies of several carols - a
legacy of excessive carolling, or perhaps just
the product of an enquiring and slighly cynical
mind... Try to enjoy Christmas, anyway.


What Christmas Carol are you?
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This was definitely a pretty good quiz; by and large, each question had an answer I wanted to pick! On the other hand, it had at least two definite flaws I can pick out:

1) It tried to give me Jingle Bells! *gasp* So I hastily went and changed Brightly coloured wrapping paper, presents, Santa Claus, stuffing myself silly on Christmas pudding. to Carols by candlelight, going around the streets carolling, never wanting to hear Jingle Bells or Silent Night ever, ever again. That question should have been a check-box one, not a radio-button one, 'cause I had several answers for it.

2) It made me choose between A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas! *sob* Plus it also had The Gift of the Magi, which is a good story too.

But hooray for "Adam Lay Y-Bounden."

Comments

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Which version of "Adam lay y-bounden" do you think it's thinking of? The only one I know is in Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, which I sang to death when I was a child (I can still play the harp interlude fairly well, which isn't bad considering it's Grade VII and I haven't played the harp since I was thirteen). Do you know it? I had a terribly embarrassing moment in "Deo Gratias", the bit where everyone keeps singing the basic "deo gratias" motif in canon and quite an irregular canon it is too. I managed to come in all on my own, fortissimo of course. Ouch.

I came up with Tom Lehrer first choice, this one when I went back and rethought a few answers. I think this one would have been more accurate for me half my lifetime ago, when I was a good little choirgirl doing umpteen carol concerts this time of year.

[darcydodo]

I figure it's thinking of the original version, not the Britten.