Fanart: Coro Natalizio

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Title: "Coro Natalizio"
Author: J.J.
Warning: None
Notes: The original pic that I adapted for the cover of my FST BUON NATALE! - an Italian 'Axis Powers Hetalia' fst. *sighs* I kind of liked a little too much drawing those... now I want to draw them for the other characters too... ;P
Disclaimer:
"Axis Powers Hetalia" belong to Himaruya Hidekaz. I'm merely using his characters because I love them...
Summary: ChibiRomano, ChibiSeborga and ChibiVeneziano sing for you Christmas songs.


Night version done for the vigil.


Day version done for Christmas day (okay, this was done because in the night version you couldn't see Veneziano and Romano's curls...).


Extra note:
For who's interested to know...

You can find info about typical Italian Christmas songs in the FST so I won't retype them all here... apart for the fact the most important Italian Christmas songs are 'Quanno nascette Ninno' in his Italian version 'Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle', which is from south Italy and 'Piva Piva' in his assorted Italian versions, which is from north Italy. Sorry, I don't know typical Christmas songs from Seborga but I guess there they sing the same songs the rest of Italy sing...

Why a chorus made by children/chibi and not by adults? In Italy is rather popular to have preschool and elementary school children have a Christmas party in December in which they organize a show for their parents. More often than not in the show they sing Christmas songs (sometimes they say Christmas poems and sometimes they make small Christmas scenes). So Christmas songs are often associated with yourself as a child singing them or watching your child singing them. Also many Christmas cd are done just for children so Christmas songs are also musical background of many childhood Christmas. This is also why many songs get translated (it's easier for kids to understand/sing a song in Italian) though there had been a time in which they were translated for adults too.

Adults sing Christmas songs. Often for Christmas and the end of the year there are concerts in which many important singers sung Christmas songs. Usually the money collected is given to associations helping people in need or in beneficence. Out of late, during those concerts however, more often than not, songs aren't translated in Italian but left in their own original version.