Favorite Holiday Music?

[Jen]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Readalie <tina21209 at y...> wrote:

> 
> What is the non-American version of "Away in a Manger"? It's one of
> my favorites as well, so I'm courious how another version is
> different.

In that perhaps inaccurate characterization (but not too, I don't 
think) I was thinking of the Kirkpatrick tune ("Cradle Song") as the 
one popular outside of America, vs. the Murray Tune ("Mueller"), the 
one most popular in America.  Kirkpatrick's is the one that opens 
with a rising fourth (c-f-f-g-a-f-f), while Murray's first line is a 
descending scale(c-c-b flat-a-a-g-f-f-e-d-c).  I prefer the 
Kirkpatrick tune.

--jen :)

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