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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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
The Kingston Trio recorded the song as "A Round About Christmas", on their album The Last Month of the Year released in 1960. [6] [16] [17] A calypso sounding version was featured on the 1979 album John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together [18] and a loose, jazzy piano-based arrangement was featured in the musical score of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a 1912 work for baritone, chorus, and orchestra by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. [ 1 ] It was first performed on September 12, 1912 at the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral ; it was conducted by the composer with the baritone Campbell McInnes .
"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]