Huron Carol
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2010
- A Canadian Christmas hymn based on a French folk song with original lyrics written by St John de Brebeuf, SJ, sung by the Canadian Tenors. Also called Twas in the Moon of Wintertime.
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I grew up in Canada with this beautiful carol and have missed it over the 55 years I have lived in the UK. It is great to hear it again after all these years.
A haunting version of a North Amercan Christmas carol from somewhere in the 17th century. Just beautiful.
We all sang it at Christmas in northern Quebec in the late fifties and early sixties. Its the only carol I know all the words to.
Written by Martyr St. Jean de Bréboeuf, catechist to the Huron tribe. Killed by a rival tribe. St. Jean and St. Isaac Jogues' feast day is today, 19 October.
Lovely, just lovely. This carol was mentioned in a novel by Louise Penny, "How the Light Gets In." I like the verse that says the infant brings beauty in addition to the usual joy and salvation. We don't usually hear that beauty is a virtue, something to aspire to. Very lovely, thank you for posting it.
That’s exactly how I am here too! Louise Penny 💜
Mary Fairchild also in Penny’s A Fatal Grace
Louise Penny sent me searching, too.
@@keckm88 And me, as well!! I'm pleased to see the lyrics written out in this version.
Me, too. Just reread How the Light Gets In and how it gave Inspector Gamache courage.
Today, October 19, is the Memorial of the Martyrs of North America, of which St. Jean de Brébeuf is one. The Martyrs are the Patron Saints of Canada.
Cree and Mohawk in my DNA mothers side i know the Cree word for snow koona ( not sure if I spelled it correctly) I remember going to the museum and village of St Marie amongst the Hurons and Marty’rs shrine learning about the Huron and Mohawk history my mom and dad brought us there and my mom had books ( she is a mix of Irish , Métis ( Cree, Mohawk, and Quebec French) so lots of old Canadian blood in me love the Huron Carole
Beautiful northern lights! I haven't seen colourful ones for several years. Like a dozen or more!
So beautiful. Hearing this Carol for the first time. Brought tears to my eyes. Blessed Christmas of the I Am, in advance 2021.
Hauntingly beautiful Huron Carol - and stunning video.
My favorite Christmas carol, and this is a great version.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful song and the spectacular photography. I will view it many times and share it with others. Merry Christmas.
My choir sang a version of this for our holiday concert. I really love this song so much.
Absolutely LOVE it! Very moving and proud of my Huron/Wendat roots!
A hauntingly stunning performance....the accompaniment...the VOICES.....the beautiful video. Gave me shivers and my heart was near bursting with wonder. I've never heard anything more beautiful. Thank you!
We sang this in choir when I was ten. It's still my favourite Christmas carol
Me too!
i never heard this before i like it thanks
The "Huron Carol" (or "Twas in the Moon of Wintertime") is a Canadian Christmas hymn (Canada's oldest Christmas song), written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada.[1] Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title is "Jesous Ahatonhia" ("Jesus, he is born"). The song's melody is based on a traditional French folk song, "Une Jeune Pucelle" ("A Young Maid"). The English version of the hymn uses imagery familiar in the early 20th century, in place of the traditional Nativity story. This version is derived from Brébeuf's original song and Huron religious concepts. In the English version, Jesus is born in a "lodge of broken bark" and wrapped in a "robe of rabbit skin". He is surrounded by hunters instead of shepherds, and the Magi are portrayed as "chiefs from afar" who bring him "fox and beaver pelts" instead of the more familiar gold, frankincense and myrrh. The English translation uses a traditional Algonquian name, Gitchi Manitou, for God, which is not in the original Wyandot version. The original lyrics are now sometimes modified to use imagery accessible to Christians who are not familiar with aboriginal Canadian cultures.The song remains a common Christmas hymn in Canadian churches of many Christian denominations. It is also found in several American hymnals, including The Hymnal 1982 of The Episcopal Church (#114), The United Methodist Hymnal (#244) and Evangelical Lutheran Worship (#284).
Because the melody spans a modest range, it is ideally suited to instruments that have a limited pitch range, such as the Native American flute
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So Beautiful...thank you for posting this awesome spiritual Tenor Christmas Huron Caro, "Excelsis Gloria"
I know it isn't the Christmas season yet but I really like this song.
so true
I always love to hear this beautiful song! It always makes me cry! Thanks, God Bless!
Jean de Brebeuf was one of the "North American Martyrs" -a French Catholic priest who devised these lyrics to teach the Catholic Faith to the Indian population in North America and Canada in the mid 1600s. His lyric sheet can be seen at the Auriesville Shrine in New York along with some of his relics. Brebeuf suffered an violent and torturous martyrdom at the hands of the Iroquois. Pax Domini Sit Semper Vobiscum!
Surely was at the same time they started assimilating the natives by teaching them the catholic faith right ?
For my part this song is not native but for the natives that they killed.
Not all the Catholics were native killers. As the lyrics prove Jean loved them and wanted to share his faith - hkw many other priests were on their level and referred to God using their own language?
He was a rare noble kind hearted man who sought brotherhood of man.
I am native and I appreciate his bravery for trying to be a real Christian coming to others in love peace as Christ did. That they were his equals not less than him.
It is a beautiful song.
LOL This is gross. While this is a beautiful song, it is a prime example of colonial imperialism and cultural genocide. You invade a country and then you're made a martyr? So American soldiers should be celebrated for killing Afghani's and imposing cultural rule? I think not.
Catholicism has created half of our modern issues. It should not be celebrated with such reverence. You, dear sir, need to do a little more research.
@@ciarankaiselmes637 and you need to do more research also Catholic basher. The Catholic Church instituted public education.
The Catholic Church also instituted Public Health Care. Have you ever wondered why an old movies you see a crucifix in every hospital? Why don't you do some research before you criticize others in fact why don't you get a life in a personality
Et cum spiritu tuo! Merry Christmas!
Such a beautiful Catholic Christmas song. This was actually one of the songs I listen to if not the first explicitly Catholic one that I listen to before I started thinking about becoming Catholic and if this song wasn't written I don't know if I would be The Devout Catholic I am today Fr Jean de Brébeuf may you be canonized as a saint one day
not sure why you think this is only a "catholic" song when it was written in Huron language and can be found in many protestant denomination hymnals, let us remember the brotherhood of Christianity
@@mdugan6507 Anybody can sing it, but it was written by a Catholic friar.
Great Christmas song ever produced
so beautiful.....
a beautiful video, thankyou for posting. Merry Christmas to all
singing this for my christmas concert tomorrow. i get a solo! :O luv it!
Beautiful
Merry Christmas from Canada!
Beautiful Carol, beautiful video.
This is about as Canadian as we can get it.Must make a point of singing this for Christmas 2017.
touchingly beautiful
Thx for sharing. Lovely.
Beautiful !!!!!
amazing!!
After hearing this, I went straight to the cabinet for Maple syrup.
Merci, Canadiens.
You're welcome :3
+Goggle P
huehuehuehuehue
De rien mon ami!
merci hey ho from Mission BC
I;m 65 years old and I sang this song in Methodist Sunday School when I was 9 or 10. I don't believe it's particularly PC,,,but I didn't know that at the time and now I feel quite nostalgic hearing it.. I've always remembered it. In fact I still know most of the words.
I'd say it's actually quite politically correct. First Nations people in Canada tend to have lots of respect for this Christmas Carol because it was an attempt on the part of Brebeuf the Jesuits to present the Christmas story in not a European way but in an indigenous way
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Thanks for taking a moment to explain your viewpoiut. My reaction was heavily colored by the social consciousness emerging in the 1960s. Stereotypes of Native Americans depicted in TV and movies were heavily - and justly - criticized.
As a teenager I felt ashamed, painfully so, because I hadn't worked all that out on my own...when I was in grade-school btw. And *_that_* implies some kind of adolescent elitism. Hmm, I've been trying to atone for my frailties for 50 years.
*_Long enough._** GOOD TALK.*
Love those northern lights.
Sitting here in grade 11, in my ELA 20-1 class on a Monday afternoon, thought of the time I had to learn this song in grade 3 for a christmas concert, looked it up, now im here lmao
Bro Im in the same boat!!! I am also grade 11 and I remember singing this song in children's choir
Yup we did it in the 80s in a choir and now I'm sat here at 45yo after finding it again.
My wife and I just uploaded a brand new version of this amazing song to our channel. I like the backgrounds you chose and the on screen lyrics!
så jävla bra- pardont my bad Swedish word- so Tham good- gooseskin - i just loved it- more of this - please canada
Gloria in excelsis Deo...
amazing- xx
AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM, AVE MARIA DEO GRATIAS
Praise be to Jesus Christ. Blessed is the calf who’s skin covers the nakedness of the world.
I noticed it said at the beginning this song was written by St John DeBrebeuf. He was one of the Jesuit missionaries who was killed in the massacre by the Iroquois at Ste Marie among the Hurons in Midland, Ontario. His buriel site is in the reconstructed church at the site of the fort
Who else is singing this at their Christmas Concert?
Tom Jackson has an annual Huron Carol Tour. His version is the most popular.
@01vald I only heard about it from my teacher who is Greek/Canadian. She learned it as a child.
@01vald The English lyrics were written by J Edgar Middleton.
crazy ideas people...the song is beautiful, and the melody is as well simply enjoy and believe what you want and stop dissecting everything in life. ok....get a life instead.
This was on my APUSH test
This was originally a Canadian song with Huron lyrics.
Played here with Australian aboriginal instruments, translated into macaronic Latin/English, and over orchestrated with electronics.
Right.
Whoever did this took a unique and seldom-heard carol and transformed it into a new-agey pastiche of pablum suitable for a commercial TV Christmas special. Blech.
i did this carol in Grade 6
My ancestors
@01vald Pretty sure Jean de Brébeuf did not write the English lyrics. He wrote the Huron (Wendat) lyrics and the French lyrics.
You forgot the other verse...no offense! "The earliest moon of winter time was not so round and fair, as was the ring of glory on the Holy Infant there; the hunter braves before Him knelt, with gifts of fox and beaver pelt...Jesus, your King is born...Jesus is born! In excelsis gloria!"
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Had to sing this for socials. My words from socials my socials book were different and you forgot the last verse. Here's the last verse:
The earliest moon of winter time is not so round and fair, as was the ring of glory on the helpless infant there.
The chiefs from far before him knelt with gifts of fox and beaver pelt.refrain.
Well,not in your shoes so do not want to lord it, but the meaning of spirituality is nicely expressed in the first nations view as far as the composer seems to have meant it. Of course Brébeuf was a french priest, still he tried to combine the culture of those who were the real people of the land whit his own clerical and missionary calling.... maybe whit his attitude he helped, not sure all 'amérindiens' would be at odds whit is positive view .Maybe wrong , still in all respect. Peace.
the only reason I listened is cause I'm singing it in school
Does a French Canadian version exist?
Check out Bruce Cockburn's stunning version
St. John de Brebeuf and the North American Martyrs pray for us.
There is a word that starts with e and ends with i it’s the name Eli
This is an overly dramatized version of the Huron Carol. For a much simpler scaled down version listen to this: ruclips.net/video/gXOthxr-BwU/видео.html
Your link is a lovely version…,
Reminds me of the first source that made me truly aware of the existence of this song…
John McCutcheon’s Winter Solstice album
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I never knew they had didgeridoos in Canada
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Why is there an Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo playing at the beginning of the song????????
i dont know who you are but i know who i am
why didgeridoo?
I see there's someone else wondering why the arranger decided to use a didgeridoo too! Canadian Carol? Sounds much more Antipodean.
Why not?
@@patriciarussell6683 I agree. Why not! The sound of the didgeridoo adds to the image of a wide open winter Huron landscape and haunting chord progressions. I love it.
I think it sounds beautiful with the piano :)
Perhaps everyone should stop and just enjoy the song for what it is. All cultures and religions have their own version of the birth of Christ. This is just one of them.
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I agree with Zoon 13 although I like this piece as a carol it is an anthem to the kind of mentality that imposed its religious notions on a people who already had a religion of their own and one that instilled a respect for the world around them not one that gave dominion over it so we could destroy it the way we have.
Rachel Rudd
The truth is simple and it can't be "apprehended" it must be simply understood.. The belief in some mystical power giving mankind dominion over all other life as being of less importance than what man has decided he himself is, then giving himself some form of credence through this make believe mystic power as opposed to simply respecting the world we live in and the need for all life to be important one to another.is at the basis of the mess the world is in right now. Or do you think this is what the mystical power these self righteous pious arrogant preachers have been stuffing down peoples throats for hundred of years had in mind for his wonderful creation.
"A respect for the world around them, that did not give them dominion", really? I agree that Native Americans lived much in tune with their world. But you cannot believe that they did not use and exploit it to the extent necessary for their small groups. Visit the Buffalo runs in Montana where hundred of Bison were driven over cliffs, the exact same action, but at a more primitive level constrained by technology, as what the Bison massacres of the 1800 were by Europeans. Stop idealizing the Native American, you do them great injustice. They warred, they stole, they raped, they killed. They are human, just as Europeans are. Now ask why Asia and Europe developed technology when Africa, North america, South America and Australia did not. Study the Neanderthal influence. Get some facts. You can blame Europeans, and now American (White)
Privilege, for everything that's wrong in the world, but I really doubt you'd do very well living in a hut and searching for food.
I think the piety of all relgions that put man in an exceptional position in the balance of life we need more respect for has been a calamity from its inception.
The aborigonals lived with the bison for thousands of years before the white man came and the herds still measured in the millions. The white man because of his religious notion of superiority killed them all off in matter of a few hundred years.
All of the meat from a buffalo run was used and preserved it was not killed for the sake of it to be wasted in an attempt to wipe out an entire race of people, again because of some stupid religion that gave them the notion of superiority. To equate a buffalo run to what the white men did in the name of some stupid god is to think it was perfectly alright to drop two atomic bombs on innocent women and children because they did not look like you and they did not fit into your political aspirations.
de Brebeuf met his end at the hands of the Huron as well. The black robes should have minded their own business.
+Bob Mackenzie Incorrect. He was captured and killed by the Iroquois.
Evangelization WAS the Black Robes' business. It's the business of every Christian...and, sometimes, we die for it, even today.
@@padrina3452 while I agree that all Christians are called to live and share the Gospel…
It is also sadly true that too many colonizers had a “convert or die” attitude.
No disrespect to anyone of any religion. But, why did the Native American people need our religion?
They were perfectly happy with their own beliefs.
Still doesn't mean it isn't a beautiful song. With Native roots myself, I understand how some may think this is offensive. However, this is not our fault that Christianity was forced down their throats. The people who did this was a good three hundred years ago. We're sorry that the Europeans came and destroyed everything. But at least the French Canadians were kind enough to respect the Natives for a long time, making a song with both their language and their own in it.
Noel doesn't exist in the Bible, I'm so sorry this one is a blasphemy, Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2 (Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:5-6). (Hosea 11:1, Matthew 2:15). read it all. I'm a Christian I'm not suppose to lie.
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No offense meant to anyone but really when you include the truth into all of this it is really quite offensive and disrespectful to all involved. Even the non-Traditionalist Indigenous people that have Stockholm type syndrome and except the colonists ways and religion and reject their own. Deep inside you remember. Our "Greater Power" is not "Creator" or "Gichi Manitou aka Great Spirit" no for us it was and for some still is the Great Mystery and is everywhere/every living thing.
Though well done, I am disappointed Everytime Native cultures are polluted by the Christian culture of their oppressors.
You need to learn something about the missionary that wrote this and the others that spread Christianity. They weren't exactly oppressors.
Agreed. I never understood why natives used the same religion as the people who oppressed them. Slaughtered them in the name of Jesus and yet many natives follow that same religion. It doesn't make sense. While the song is beautiful, it just makes me shake my head like why. It's time we reclaim our true ways, our true way of living not the ways of the those who sought to destroy us.
@@thegreatallanu : Have you asked (in a civil manner) any devout Native Christians WHY they embrace Christianity, given what you believe is the truth of the matter? Maybe, you'll gain some insight into this seeming contradiction.
@@padrina3452 I'm native dude, Blackfoot to be exact and even after asking several, none could give me an answer beyond "I don't know it's just the way I was raised" because their parents had it beaten into them in residential schools. That's why I find it odd, it was a tool to beat, rape and murder them and steal everything away from them and they still choose to follow it. It just doesn't make sense
@@thegreatallanu : Well, then, maybe, it's simply because Christianity is about JESUS, not Judas.
Beautiful