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A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas and holiday season. The term noel has sometimes been used, especially for carols of French origin. [1] Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category of Christmas music.
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.
In common with many traditional songs and carols, the lyrics vary across books. The versions compared below are taken from The New English Hymnal (1986) (which is the version used in Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer's Carols, New and Old), [1] [13] Ralph Dunstan's gallery version in the Cornish Songbook (1929) [14] and Reverend Charles Lewis Hutchins's version in Carols Old and Carols ...
When it comes to the history of Christmas, the days and traditions may have changed over time, but one thing always remains the same: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever ...
The U.S Army Band performs a Christmas concert in 2010.. Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of carols, may employ lyrics about the nativity of Jesus Christ, traditions such as gift-giving and merrymaking, cultural figures such as Santa Claus ...
Sans Day Carol; Saint Stephen and Herod; Santa Lucia (song) See, amid the Winter's Snow; The Seven Joys of Mary (carol) Shepherd's Pipe Carol; Shepherds Arise; The Sinner's Redemption; Sir Christèmas; Somerset Carol; Star Carol; Star of the East (song) Still, Still the Night; Süßer die Glocken nie klingen; Sussex Carol; Sylvias hälsning ...
Singing carols during the 2014 Declaration of Christmas Peace in Porvoo, Finland. In modern times, songs that may once have been regarded as carols are now no longer classified as such (especially Christmas songs), even those that retain the traditional attributes of a carol – celebrating a seasonal topic, alternating verses and chorus, and danceable music.
"Joy to the World" is an English hymn and Christmas carol. It was written in 1719 by the English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts.It is usually sung to the American composer Lowell Mason's 1848 arrangement of a tune attributed to George Frideric Handel.