The best known and loved of all our many Christmas songs Silent Night was written in Oberndorf, a tiny village in Bavarian mountains. ____51__ Christmas Eve in 1818, Oberndorf had been isolated by a severe snowstorm, ___52___ already the inhabitants cheerfully prepared for the Christmas festivities. Then they discovered, to their ___53___ ,that the organ(风琴)had broken down.
A village schoolmaster and church organist knew how unhappy the people would be, for music was the___54___ of all their celebration. So he went to the assistant priest(牧师)and suggested that the priest write a special song for the Christmas celebration that could be sung without any preparation. The priest ___55___ to do his best. Toward evening he went to the home of the ___56___ with the lovely words of the song Silent Night. Then the schoolmaster composed a melody to fit the words.
On Christmas morning, the beautiful carol(圣诞节颂歌)was sung ___57___ the first time. A guitar was the____58__accompaniment(伴奏).All is clam; all is bright, sounded pure and clear in the Bavarian air.
The song ___59___ to England until one hundred years ago. Times have changed, but Silent Night has remained. It is still sung ____60__ of the world where people commemorate(纪念)the birth of Christ.
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