{"id":1531,"date":"2012-12-17T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T22:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T22:54:31","slug":"not-average-carols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2012\/12\/17\/not-average-carols\/","title":{"rendered":"Not your average christmas carols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so much music written and published just for the Christmas season, but I bet you haven&#8217;t seen any of these pieces before. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some pretty normal fare, from 1887.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/133745\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acumen.lib.ua.edu\/content\/u0004\/0000002\/5830000\/0001\/u0004_0000002_5830000_0001_2048.jpg\" alt=\"Sheet music, 1877, santa claus will come tonight\" width=\"80%\" height=\"80%\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice Santa using his glasses to check his list. (Click on the image above to see it in Acumen and zoom in even more.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/files\/2012\/12\/u0004_0000002_5830000_0001_2048_part.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/files\/2012\/12\/u0004_0000002_5830000_0001_2048_part-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"u0004_0000002_5830000_0001_2048_part\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are also things a bit out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>From 1866, a polka. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/133746\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acumen.lib.ua.edu\/content\/u0004\/0000002\/0453000\/0001\/u0004_0000002_0453000_0001_2048.jpg\" alt=\"Sheet music, 1866, Christmas Eve Polka\" width=\"80%\" height=\"80%\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Where&#8217;s Lawrence Welk when you need him?)<\/p>\n<p>This last one is a whole cantata, but it&#8217;s nothing like you&#8217;d see in church!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/8852\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acumen.lib.ua.edu\/content\/u0004\/0000002\/0000397\/0001\/u0004_0000002_0000397_0001_2048.jpg\" alt=\"Sheet music, 1917, santa and his auto sleigh\" width=\"80%\" height=\"80%\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was only 1917 when this was published, but they were already joking about the world changing too fast.<\/p>\n<p><i>Such singing and ringing, Such accidents bringing,<br \/>\nThese new fangled doings are not my kind of ways&#8230;<br \/>\nSuch hurry and scurry, And no end of worry,<br \/>\nIt never was so in our grandfathers&#8217; days.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But no wonder they were worried &#8212; they wanted Santa to get an &#8220;auto-sleigh&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/133747\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acumen.lib.ua.edu\/content\/u0004\/0000002\/0000397\/0011\/u0004_0000002_0000397_0011_2048.jpg\" alt=\"santa and his auto sleigh, p. 11\" width=\"90%\" height=\"90%\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These pieces of sheet music, and many more, are from <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/18238\">The Wade Hall Collection of Southern History and Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so much music written and published just for the Christmas season, but I bet you haven&#8217;t seen any of these pieces before. Here&#8217;s some pretty normal fare, from 1887. Notice Santa using his glasses to check his list. (Click &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2012\/12\/17\/not-average-carols\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5461],"tags":[5463,3703,3753,3740],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sheet-music-format","tag-1910s","tag-19th-century","tag-holidays","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}