Today we want to celebrate the gift of music. After all, what would Christmas be without music? Didn’t angels sing the night Christ was born? (Luke 2) Well, it doesn’t actually say they were singing. It says they were saying, “Glory to God in the highest . . .” but that sure sounds like singing to me. Music is such a wonderful gift.

A few years ago a group of junior high school students was given a test of musical terms. Here were some of their answers:

1. Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel,” one young man wrote. Then he added, “I know what a sextet is but I had rather not say.
2. A xylophone is an instrument used mainly to illustrate the letter X, answered someone else.
3. Dirges are music written to be played at sad, sad occa­sions . . . such as funerals, weddings, a…