"the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych as ""Shchedryk"", and premiered in December 1916 by a choral group made up of students at Kyiv University. Although it is a Christmas carol in Wilhousky's English lyrics, in original Ukrainian lyrics it is a Generous Eve carol (, ), having nothing with Christianity. Christmas music performed in the United States ranges from popular songs, such as ""Jingle Bells"", to Christmas carols, such as ""Away in a Manger"", ""O Little Town of Bethlehem"", and numerous others of varying genres. Church and college choirs celebrate with special programs and online recordings. Christmas carol A Christmas carol"
"Silent Night ""Silent Night"" () is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song has been recorded by a large number of singers from every music genre. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the third best-selling single of all-time. The song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. A"
"Christmas carol A Christmas carol (also called a noël, from the French word meaning ""Christmas"") is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, and which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season. Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category of Christmas music. The first known Christmas hymns may be traced to 4th-century Rome. Latin hymns such as ""Veni redemptor gentium"", written by Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, were austere statements of the theological doctrine of the Incarnation in opposition to Arianism. ""Corde natus ex Parentis"""
"The First Noel ""The First Noel"" (also written ""The First Noël"" and ""The First Nowell"") is a traditional classical English Christmas carol, most likely from the early modern period, although possibly earlier. ""Noel"" is an Early Modern English synonym of ""Christmas"". ""The First Noel"" is of Cornish origin. Its current form was first published in ""Carols Ancient and Modern"" (1823) and ""Gilbert and Sandys Carols"" (1833), both of which were edited by William Sandys and arranged, edited and with extra lyrics written by Davies Gilbert for ""Hymns and Carols of God"". Today, it is usually performed in a four-part hymn"
"2004 for the English song ""She"" by Groove Coverage. Stern über Bethlehem Stern über Bethlehem (Star above Bethlehem) is a German sacred Christmas carol which Alfred Hans Zoller created in 1964 in the genre Neues Geistliches Lied. Used by star singers around Epiphany, it has become a popular song and is part of many German hymnals and songbooks. The carol's composer, Alfred Hans Zoller was a jazz pianist and church musician who founded a gospel choir in Reutti near Neu-Ulm, while trying to introduce gospel music in church singing. Zoller wrote the lyrics and melody of the song in 1964,"
"Corpus Christi Carol Corpus Christi Carol is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first found by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill in a manuscript written around 1504. The original writer of the carol remains anonymous. The earliest surviving record of the piece preserves only the lyrics and is untitled. It has survived in altered form in the folk tradition as the Christmas carol ""Down In Yon Forest"". The structure of the carol is six stanzas, each with rhyming couplets. The tense changes in the fourth stanza from past to present continuous. One hypothesis about the meaning"
"Stern über Bethlehem Stern über Bethlehem (Star above Bethlehem) is a German sacred Christmas carol which Alfred Hans Zoller created in 1964 in the genre Neues Geistliches Lied. Used by star singers around Epiphany, it has become a popular song and is part of many German hymnals and songbooks. The carol's composer, Alfred Hans Zoller was a jazz pianist and church musician who founded a gospel choir in Reutti near Neu-Ulm, while trying to introduce gospel music in church singing. Zoller wrote the lyrics and melody of the song in 1964, in response to the third competition of the Evangelische"
"Come kneel before the radiant Boy Who brings you beauty, peace and joy. ""Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, In excelsis gloria."" </poem> Huron Carol The ""Huron Carol"" (or ""Twas in the Moon of Wintertime"") is a Canadian Christmas hymn (Canada's oldest Christmas song), written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title is ""Jesous Ahatonhia"" (""""Jesus, he is born""""). The song's melody is based on a traditional French folk song, ""Une"
"All Hail to the Days (Drive the Cold Winter Away) ""All Hail to the Days"", also known as ""Drive the Cold Winter Away"", ""In Praise of Christmas"", and ""The Praise of Christmas"", is an English Christmas carol of Elizabethan origins. The carol first appeared as a broadside in circa 1625, though its origins are unclear; Thomas Durfrey is sometimes erroneously identified as the lyricist. Though obscure, the carol has featured in numerous hymnals over the centuries. It is traditionally sung to the tune ""When Phoebus did rest"", under which it is printed in the Pepys and Roxburgh collections and Playford’s"
"Christmas carol is """"Tu scendi dalle stelle"""", written in 1732 by Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori. Christmas carols in predominantly Catholic Philippines exhibit the influence of indigenous, Hispanic and American musical traditions, reflecting the country's complex history. Carollers () begin wassailing in November, with mostly children and young adults participating in the custom. Christmas carols are very popular in Poland, where they have a long history, the oldest dating to the 15th century or earlier. There is a tradition of singing Christmas carols until 2 February which is celebrated by western Christians as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus"
"form of the carol. The first three verses run, in full, as follows: Subsequent verses follow the same pattern, each adding one new gift and repeating all the earlier gifts so that each verse is one line longer than its predecessor: The earliest known version of the lyrics was published in London under the title ""The Twelve Days of Christmas sung at King Pepin's Ball"", as part of a 1780 children's book, ""Mirth without Mischief"". Subsequent versions have shown considerable variation: For ease of comparison with Austin's 1909 version given above:<br> (a) differences in wording, ignoring capitalisation and punctuation, are"
"In the Bleak Midwinter ""In the Bleak Midwinter"" is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti. The poem was published, under the title ""A Christmas Carol"", in the January 1872 issue of ""Scribner's Monthly"". The poem first appeared set to music in ""The English Hymnal"" in 1906 with a setting by Gustav Holst. Harold Darke's anthem setting of 1911 is more complex and was named the best Christmas carol in a poll of some of the world's leading choirmasters and choral experts in 2008. <poem> In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan; Earth"
"Carols"" of 1912. Gerald Finzi, with permission from Vaughan Williams and Mrs Leather, also used the melody as the basis of his 1925 choral work ""The Brightness of This Day"", substituting the text for a poem by George Herbert. The truth sent from above ""The truth sent from above"" is an English folk carol of unknown authorship usually performed at Christmas. Collected in the early part of the 20th century by English folk song collectors in Shropshire and Herefordshire, a number of variations on the tune exist, but the text remains broadly similar. The first line of the carol is"
"Christmas Lullaby Christmas Lullaby is a popular sacred choral composition by John Rutter, a lullaby for Christmas. He wrote his own text, beginning ""Clear in the darkness"", three stanzas with the refrain ""Ave Maria"". Rutter scored the piece for four vocal parts (SATB) and piano, adding other versions. He composed it on a 1989 commission from The Bach Choir for the celebration of the 70th birthday of their conductor David Willcocks. It was first performed at the choir's Christmas concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, an event that Rutter knew from being a member of the audience as"
"The Rocking Carol The Rocking Carol, also known as ""Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep"" and ""Rocking"", is an English Christmas carol by Percy Dearmer. It was translated from Czech in 1928 and is performed as a lullaby to the baby Jesus. The carol was first published in an anthology in 1920 in Czechoslovakia, where it was described as a traditional Czech carol. It was loosely translated into English by Percy Dearmer, as part of his effort of resurrecting hymns that had fallen into disuse and introducing European hymns into the Church of England. The carol is sung in the form of"
"Calypso Carol The Calypso Carol is a popular modern Christmas carol, with the opening line ""See him lying on a bed of straw"". It has often been introduced by BBC announcers and others as a traditional folk carol from the West Indies. The calypso of the title refers to its West Indian flavour, and the words have featured on a set of Caribbean postage stamps. However, both words and music were written by an Englishman, Michael Perry, while he was a student at Oak Hill Theological College in 1964. Perry became one of the UK's leading contemporary hymn writers, but"
"singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost."" This carol also is featured in the second movement of the 1927 ""Carol Symphony"" by Victor Hely-Hutchinson. The first recorded version is found in ""Three New Christmas Carols"", dated c. 1760. Its first verse reads: The transitive use of the verb ""rest"" in the sense ""to keep, cause to continue to remain"" is typical of 16th to 17th century language (the phrase ""rest you merry"" is recorded in the 1540s). Etymonline.com notes that the first line ""often is mis-punctuated"" as ""God rest you, merry gentlemen"""
"NATALE for choir and orchestra by Mario Lamberto. FANTASIA DI NATALE is a shorter version of ""Christmas Fantasy"" which was commissioned by the TPO (Turin Philharmonic Orchestra) for the Christmas Concert organized by the Consortium for University Business Studies and the University School for Business Management at Pinerolo (Turin), December 18, 2000. The Fantasy includes six most famous Christmas songs and carols (""Stille Nacht - Silent night – Astro del Ciel // Adeste fideles – O come ye faithful – Venite fedeli // Deck the Halls // Tu scendi dalle stelle // O Tannenbaum // Jingle bells"") set in form"
"Candlelight Carol ""Candlelight Carol"" is a Christmas carol with music and lyrics by the English choral composer and conductor John Rutter. The carol was written in 1984, and was first recorded by Rutter's own group, the Cambridge Singers, on their 1987 album ""Christmas Night"". The carol has since been recorded by many artists, including Neil Diamond (on his 1994 album ""The Christmas Album, Volume 2""), Joseph McManners (on his 2005 album ""In Dreams""), Aled Jones (including a version in Welsh), and several important choirs including the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It has also become a fairly popular carol for choirs at"
"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol. It is in the Roxburghe Collection (iii. 452), and is listed as no. 394 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is also known as Tidings of Comfort and Joy, and by variant incipits as ""Come All You Worthy Gentlemen""; ""God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen""; ""God Rest Ye, Merry Christians""; or ""God Rest You Merry People All"". It is one of the oldest extant carols, dated to the 16th century or earlier. The earliest known printed edition of the carol is in a broadsheet"
"Down in Yon Forest ""Down in Yon Forest"" (or ""Down in Yon Forrest"") is a traditional English Christmas carol dating to the Renaissance era, ultimately deriving from the anonymous Middle English poem known today as the Corpus Christi Carol. The carol has been arranged in modern English by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Nicholas Maw, John Jacob Niles and John Rutter, among others. It has been recorded by artists including Joan Baez (on ""Noël""), Martyn Bates with Max Eastley, Shirley Collins, The Albion Band, Bruce Cockburn (on ""Christmas""), Kemper Crabb, Burl Ives (on ""Christmas Day in the Morning""), John McCutcheon, Jean Ritchie"
"of theme and variations with a Stretta nel finale. T. T. : ca. 10 minutes. The Christmas Fantasy was commissioned by the TPO (Turin Philharmonic Orchestra) for the Christmas Concert, organized by the Consortium for University Business Studies and the University School for Business Management at Pinerolo (Turin), December 18, 2000. The Fantasy includes eight most famous Christmas songs and carols (""Stille Nacht - Silent night – Astro del Ciel // Adeste fideles – O come ye faithful – Venite fedeli // Deck the Halls // Tu scendi dalle stelle // O Tannenbaum // Jingle bells // Happy Christmas //"
"Thiman, who wrote a setting for solo voice and piano, and Leonard Lehrman. In the Bleak Midwinter ""In the Bleak Midwinter"" is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti. The poem was published, under the title ""A Christmas Carol"", in the January 1872 issue of ""Scribner's Monthly"". The poem first appeared set to music in ""The English Hymnal"" in 1906 with a setting by Gustav Holst. Harold Darke's anthem setting of 1911 is more complex and was named the best Christmas carol in a poll of some of the world's leading choirmasters and choral"
"This Endris Night ""This Endris Night"" (also ""Thys Endris Night"", ""Thys Ender Night"" or ""The Virgin and Child"") is a 15th-century English Christmas carol. It has also appeared under various other spellings. Two versions from the 15th-century survive, one republished in Thomas Wright, ""Songs and Carols Now First Printed, From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century"" (London: The Percy Society, 1847), and the other in the possession of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, Scotland, a legal deposit belonging to the Faculty of Advocates, a role which was assumed by the National Library of Scotland from 1925 onwards. All non-legal collections"
"sung in Greek translation. Many carols are regional, being popular in specific regions but unknown in others, whereas some are popular throughout the two countries. Examples of the latter are the Peloponnesian Christmas carol """"Christoúgenna, Prōtoúgenna"""" (""Christmas, Firstmas""), the Constantinopolitan Christmas carol """"Kalēn hespéran, árchontes"""" (""Good evening, lords""), and the New Year's carol """"Archimēniá ki archichroniá"""" (""First of the month, first of the year""). The oldest known carol, commonly referred to as the (Byzantine Greek: Άναρχος θεός καταβέβηκεν, ""Ánarkhos Theós katabébēken"", ""God, who has no beginning, descended""), is linguistically dated to the beginning of the High Middle Ages, ""ca."" 1000"
"The long-running BBC programme ""Songs of Praise"" invited viewers to vote for their favourite carols throughout 2005. Tens of thousands of votes were cast, and the Calypso Carol was one of the top ten choices, performed at the Songs of Praise 2005 Christmas Concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Calypso Carol The Calypso Carol is a popular modern Christmas carol, with the opening line ""See him lying on a bed of straw"". It has often been introduced by BBC announcers and others as a traditional folk carol from the West Indies. The calypso of the title refers to its West"
"Joseph Mohr Josephus Franciscus Mohr, sometimes spelled Josef (11 December 1792 – 4 December 1848) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol ""Silent Night."" Mohr was born in Salzburg on 11 December 1792, to an unmarried embroiderer, Anna Schoiberin, and Franz Mohr, a mercenary soldier and deserter, who abandoned Joseph's mother before the birth. The ancestors on his father's side came from the town of Mariapfarr in the mountainous Lungau region south of Salzburg, while his mother's family was from the salt-mining city of Hallein. At his baptism shortly after birth,"
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ""It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"" (1849), sometimes rendered as ""It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"", is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. Sears' lyrics are most commonly set to ""Noel"", adapted by Arthur Sullivan from an English melody (in Commonwealth countries), or to ""Carol"", composed by Richard Storrs Willis (in the United States). Edmund Sears composed the five-stanza poem in common metre doubled during 1849. It first appeared on December 29, 1849, in the ""Christian Register"" in Boston, Massachusetts. Sears served the"
"track stand at 918,000 downloads according to Nielsen SoundScan, placing it sixth on the list of all-time best-selling Christmas/holiday digital singles in SoundScan history. Christmas Canon ""Christmas Canon"" is a Christmas song by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) from their 1998 album ""The Christmas Attic"". The song is set to the tune of Johann Pachelbel's ""Canon in D Major"" with new lyrics added. The style is a departure from TSO's usual rock arrangements, instead being performed in the style of a children's choir with light accompaniment from piano and strings. The group would later create a rock version of the song,"
"Xaver Gruber can be heard in an audio exhibit at the Waggerl Museum in Wagrain. Joseph Mohr Josephus Franciscus Mohr, sometimes spelled Josef (11 December 1792 – 4 December 1848) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol ""Silent Night."" Mohr was born in Salzburg on 11 December 1792, to an unmarried embroiderer, Anna Schoiberin, and Franz Mohr, a mercenary soldier and deserter, who abandoned Joseph's mother before the birth. The ancestors on his father's side came from the town of Mariapfarr in the mountainous Lungau region south of Salzburg, while his"
"argued that it has only minor Biblical references and is written without theological context and historical precision. The Rocking Carol The Rocking Carol, also known as ""Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep"" and ""Rocking"", is an English Christmas carol by Percy Dearmer. It was translated from Czech in 1928 and is performed as a lullaby to the baby Jesus. The carol was first published in an anthology in 1920 in Czechoslovakia, where it was described as a traditional Czech carol. It was loosely translated into English by Percy Dearmer, as part of his effort of resurrecting hymns that had fallen into disuse"
"Bethlehem Down Bethlehem Down is a choral anthem or carol composed in 1927 by Anglo-Welsh composer Peter Warlock (1894–1930) (the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine) and set to a poem written by journalist and poet Bruce Blunt (1899–1957). It is a popular anthem used in the Anglican church during the liturgical seasons of Christmastide and Epiphany. Warlock wrote it to finance an ""immortal carouse"" (a heavy bout of drinking) on Christmas Eve 1927 for himself and Blunt, who were experiencing financial difficulty. The pair submitted the carol to the ""Daily Telegraph""'s annual Christmas carol contest and won. The carol also"
"in the manger. In the third stanza, all are called to revere ""with hearts full of love."" The ""Ave Maria"" returns, this last time with some counterpoint for a climax, but ending in the same soft homophony as before. Christmas Lullaby Christmas Lullaby is a popular sacred choral composition by John Rutter, a lullaby for Christmas. He wrote his own text, beginning ""Clear in the darkness"", three stanzas with the refrain ""Ave Maria"". Rutter scored the piece for four vocal parts (SATB) and piano, adding other versions. He composed it on a 1989 commission from The Bach Choir for the"