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The Medieval Origins of ‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel’

The Medieval Origins of ‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel’
Members of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, a Catholic order formed in 1988, perform a Gregorian chant at Our Lady of Guadalupe seminary in Denton, Neb., on May 12, 2017. AP Photo/Nati Harnik
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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If you know the world of classical music, you know it is filled with a sniffy snobbery that causes most normal people to recoil. This is deeply regrettable because it is wrong historically and aesthetically. Most of what we call “classical” music was, in fact, popular music and has survived not because of elite culture as such but, quite simply, because people loved it and still do.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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