Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Sunday, December 25, 2016

"Il est né"


Seven or eight years ago (shortly after I started taking French classes in high school), my dad got me Liturgies et cantiques luthériens, which is essentially the French version of The Lutheran Service Book.  I haven't lookt into it as much as I would like, but I have noticed that the two hymnals don't have all of the same hymns.  For instance, the hymn for which this is the tune ("Il est né, le divin Enfant") isn't in LSB.  I first became familiar with it via the version on the VeggieTales' A Very Veggie Christmas (where it's sung in English as "He Is Born, the Holy Child"), although I vaguely remember talking about it in French class around Christmastime.

In any case, I thought I would do it for my LHC tune this week (although I actually recorded it and wrote this description yester-day).  Usually I do only two verses, but because this has verses and a refrain, I got a bit lost and went through the verse three times.