Noche de paz
Silent Night in Spanish, Franz Gruber's tune with the words "Noche de paz, noche de amor" as a New York hymnal printed them in 1893, for 2 to 4 singers: all three verses, gentle and lilting in 6/8. The soprano sings the tune, the alto mostly a third or sixth below, the tenor fills the chord and the bass holds mostly the roots on "oo". A stretch song: the tune runs from low C up to F, so take the high and low notes gently, or move the key.
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Words: Spanish words after Joseph Mohr's German (1816), as printed, unsigned, in El Himnario evangélico (New York, 1893); often credited to Federico Fliedner (in 13 of the 18 hymnals from 1990 on that Hymnary.org indexes), though no printing we have seen before 1964 names himTune: Franz Xaver Gruber (1818)
¡Noche de paz, noche de amor!Todo duerme en derredor.Entre los astros que esparcen su luz,Bella anunciando al niñito Jesús,Brilla la estrella de paz,Brilla la estrella de paz.
About Noche de paz
Noche de paz is Silent Night in Spanish, after Joseph Mohr's German words of 1816, to Franz Xaver Gruber's tune of 1818. The earliest known printing of these Spanish words is in El Himnario evangélico (New York, 1893). It calls the tune by an English name, "Holy Night", and names no one: not Gruber, not Mohr, nor whoever wrote the Spanish. The words are often credited to Federico Fliedner, in 13 of the 18 hymnals from 1990 on that Hymnary.org indexes, but no printing we have seen before 1964 names him. In 1893 the second verse's second line was "En el campo al pastor"; today's "Oye humilde el fiel pastor" has its earliest known printing in a New York hymnal of 1915. We sing all three verses of the 1893 hymnal, in C, lilting in 6/8, with four parts of our own, for 2 to 4 singers.
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