So much secrecy during the Christmas season
| So much secrecy during the Christmas season | |
|---|---|
| Rundfunk-Kinderchor Berlin | |
| publication | 1970 |
| length | 1:31 |
| Genre (s) | Christmas carol |
| Author (s) | Lotte Schuffenhauer |
So much secrecy in the Christmas season is a German Christmas carol that the music teacher Lotte Schuffenhauer († 1981) wrote and composed before 1952. It first became known to a wider audience in 1969 in the DEFA children's film Santa Claus is called Willi .
In 1970 the song was published in the version of the Rundfunk-Kinderchor Berlin on the Christmas LP Soon now is Christmas time of the GDR label Eterna . In addition, it was part of the school curriculum for music lessons in the GDR and was included in various music textbooks and song books.
content
The song is about curious secrets during the Christmas season. So from a child who is written in first person perspective, the dolls and the bear have disappeared. Hansel, however, misses his train, which is no longer in the same place. At the end it is described that it smells delicious in the kitchen, just like in a confectioner's.
literature
- Bernd Pachnicke: German folk songs. 280 selected lyrics. Peters, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-369-00024-5 , p. 242 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Hans Joachim Scheuner (Ed.): Christmas time, most beautiful time. A picture songbook for children with two records and a music book for guitar accompaniment , Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-370-00050-4 .
- Music and Society , Vol. 15, Ed. Association of German Composers and Musicologists, Henschelverlag, 1965, p. 130
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Songbook for Preschool Education. VEB Volk & Wissen, Berlin (DDR) 1952, p. 37, accessed on deutscheslied.com on December 13, 2018
- ↑ It will be Christmas time soon. ETERNA - 8 26 101 (1970) at Discogs
- ↑ Music textbook for grade 2 . Volk und Wissen publishing house, Berlin 1969, DNB 354209809 .