Sing Choirs of Angels: Traditional Carols and Christmas Music

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Learn more about the popularity of Christmas carols below with traditional and modern songs. The Rise of Christmas Carols and Hymns Silent Night' or ‘Stille Nacht’ is a carol that was originally written in German by Franz Xaver Gruber with lyrics by Joseph Mohr in 1818. This carol radiates calmness and peace associated with the festival and advent of Jesus. 3. 'O Come All Ye Faithful' Hymns for Easter, Traditional Easter lyrics midi and PDF 100+ Hymns for Ascension, lyrics (some with chords) and PDF A contemporary carol written by British composer and clergyman Michael Perry in the 1960s. Lyrics from the carol have appeared on postage stamps from the Carribean islands Nevis and St. Kitts. This lively and energetic carol first shot to fame in 1969. Words: French poem, Minuit Chrétiens translated by Jonathan Sullivan Dwight Tune: Cantique De Noël by Adolphe Adam.

The words are set to the 16th century French tune Branle De L’Official which was originally a stately dance. Nowadays, thanks to the addition of a soaring Gloria from George Ratcliffe Woodward, it has become one of Christmas’ most rousing sings. Very popular in both Spain and LATAM, composed by a religious scholar (allegedly) of Castilian origin [26] Also known as ‘Hymn for Christmas Day’, this 19th-century English carol was written by Edward Caswall with music by Sir John Goss, an organist at St Paul’s Cathedral and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music.translation of "Gloria in excelsis Deo" into Dutch by Isaac Bikkers (often confused with "Ere zij God") This list of Christmas carols is organized by country, language or culture of origin. Originally, a " Christmas carol" referred to a piece of vocal music in carol form whose lyrics centre on the theme of Christmas or the Christmas season. The difference between a Christmas carol and a Christmas popular song can often be unclear as they are both sung by groups of people going house to house during the Christmas season. Some view Christmas carols to be only religious in nature and consider Christmas songs to be secular. [1] The Little Drummer Boy’ was originally known as The Carol of the Drum, and the text is based on an old Czech carol. It was written by American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1940. It was recorded by Bing Crosby and David Bowie in 1977, with the new addition of the ‘Peace On Earth’ countermelody which has since become an accepted part of the song. This uplifting Advent carol was a relatively recent addition to the canon of Christmas music, written by Roman Catholic composer Bernadette Farrell in the early 1990s. It describes the waiting for Christmas as a journey through darkness towards light. The song was compiled by musicologist Kurt Schindler in his work "Folk music and poetry of Spain and Portugal".

The joyous themes for many traditional Christmas carols were banned in England by the staunch Protestant Oliver Cromwell and many of the very old Christmas carols and songs were subsequently lost for all time. Christmas carols were only fully popularised again during the Victorian era when they again expressed joyful and merry themes in their carol lyrics as opposed to the normal, more sombre, Christian lyrics found in hymns. As religious observances in the United States and England were closely linked the popularity of Christmas carols grew in both countries in the 19th century. A permanent fixture in the traditional services of Lessons And Carols, this most famous of carols is set to a tune by Felix Mendelssohn. It began with a much more archaic name; ‘Hark How All The Welkin Rings’, (the welkin being an old-fashioned term for the heavens). But George Whitefield, a colleague of the lyricist Charles Wesley, thought that no-one would understand the meaning, and so he compiled his own hymnal and changed the words himself! A writer of many Christian hymns, James Montgomery ( PHH 72) composed this Christmas and Epiphany text and published it on Christmas Eve, 1816, in the Sheffield Iris, a newspaper he edited. Montgomery based the text in part on the French carol "Angels We Have Heard on High" (347); it was sung to that tune for over fifty years. Entitling it "Good Tidings of Great Joy to All People," Montgomery republished the text with small alterations in his Christian Psalmist (1825). Angels from the Realms of Glory,” penned by a Scottish poet named James Montgomery, proclaims a full picture of the Gospel: “Sinners, wrung with true repentance, doomed for guilt to endless pains, Justice now revokes the sentence, mercy calls you--break your chains.” Other verses are also filled with theological richness, leading carolers to joyful contemplation as they “Come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ the newborn King.” (Source: Wikipedia) 3. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus lyrics: James Montgomery; music: Henry Thomas Smart, 1867, to the tune of "Regent Square". In the UK a slightly different arrangement of " Angels We Have Heard on High" (" Gloria")

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The haunting melody accompanies even more haunting subject matter, taken from the gospel of Matthew, which recounts the ‘Massacre of the Innocents’ when King Herod set out to kill the infant Christ. The minor mode of the original melody still transfixes congregations and choirs alike. The distribution of Christmas music books in the 19th century helped to increase the popular interest in carols. William Sandys' 1833 compilation Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern featured the first publication in print of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," "The First Noel," and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." The publication in 1871 of Christmas Carols, New and Old by Henry Ramsden Bramley and Sir John Stainer was also a notable contribution to reviving carols in Victorian Britain.

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