Product Description
On December Five-and-Twenty brings together three folk tunes from different regions of Europe. The first, Fum, Fum, Fum, is a Catalan carol from northeastern Spain. The second, Pat-a-Pan, comes from the Burgundy region of east-central France. The third, Touro-Louro-Louro! comes from the Provence region of southeastern France.
Each tune bears an onomatopoetic title (a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes): The refrain fum, fum, fum in the Catalan carol is an onomatopoeia for the strumming of a guitar. Pat-a-pan the title of the Burgundian carol imitates the sound of a drum being struck. Touro-louro-louro! the title of the Provencal carol suggests the singing of birds. (A similar onomatopoeia, turelurelu, appears in Pat-a-Pan, suggesting the sound of a fife, or flute, being played.)
This is a delightful arrangement that is enjoyable to play and pleasing to listeners.
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