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"Masters in This Hall" (alternative title: "Nowell, Sing We Clear") is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. The carol is moderately popular around the world but has not entered the canon of most popular carols.
The Oxford Book of Carols has been reprinted many times. It was re-engraved and reset in a slightly larger format in 1964, at which time some of the medieval carols were re-edited. The most recent impression is dated 26 January 1984 and is still in print. The New Oxford Book of Carols was published in 1992 by OUP. Anthologists Hugh Keyte and ...
Inspired by a French Christmas carol of the mid 1800s and set to the tune of the ancient hymn “Gloria,” this song is a glorious musical celebration of the birth of Christ.
Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton with a book by David H. Bell (adapted by Bell, Paul T. Couch and Curt Wollan). It is an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol , relocating the story from Victorian London to the 1930s in the Great Smoky Mountains of ...
A Virgin Unspotted" is a Christmas carol. It originates from 1661, when the oldest known version was written in "New Carolls for this Merry Time of Christmas". It is said to be based on "A Virgin Most Pure", a similar carol. This carol is in a 3/4 rhythm in the verses, but speeds up to a 6/8 rhythm in the chorus.
The carol first appeared as a broadside in circa 1625, though its origins are unclear; Thomas d'Urfey is sometimes erroneously identified as the lyricist, including in the 1928 Oxford Book of Carols. [1] Though obscure, the carol has featured in numerous hymnals over the centuries. [2]
"Past Three O'Clock" (or "Past Three a Clock") is an English Christmas carol, loosely based on the call of the traditional London waits, musicians and watchmen who patrolled during the night, using a musical instrument to show they were on duty and to mark the hours. [1]
[1] in a collection of twelve Provençal Christmas carols by Nicolas Saboly. [2] The popularity of the melody is attested by its use four years later by Marc-Antoine Charpentier for the drinking song, " Qu'ils sont doux, bouteille jolie " in a 1672 revival of Molière 's Le Médecin malgré lui .