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See media help. " God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," also known as " God Rest Ye 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 other variant incipits.
"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" takes place during Christmastime, taking its name from the famous Christmas carol.The story centers around a hospital and its staff. A local boy comes to the hospital and indicates that he had been having feelings of lust, which the boy believed was a sin; the boy asks the doctors at the hospital to castrate him.
The Second Movement, the Scherzo, alternates between slow and fast treatments of the carol-tune God rest you merry, gentlemen. The Third Movement, the composer says, is 'the real corn of the Symphony, and has a significance which should be clear from the tunes on which it is based, and from its character.'
11 October 1837 (aged 71) Occupation (s) organist and composer. Children. 7 (including Samuel Sebastian Wesley) Parent (s) Charles Wesley and Sarah Wesley. Samuel Wesley (24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart (1756–1791) and was called by ...
Bob Kulick, Brett Chassen & Elvin Schäder. Alternative Cover. US Cover. We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year is an album of Christmas songs played by an all-star collection of hard rock and heavy metal artists released on October 14, 2008. Each track puts together a unique supergroup playing a traditional Christmas selection.
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Henry Ramsden Bramley (4 June 1833 – February 1917) was an English clergyman and hymnologist perhaps best known for his collaborations with the composer Sir John Stainer. [1] Along with earlier 19th-century composers such as William Sandys and John Mason Neale, Bramley and Stainer are credited with fuelling a Victorian revival of Christmas ...
C [2] This Christmas is the third album (and first Christmas album) by 98 Degrees. The album sold over 1 million copies in the US alone and spawned the Hot 100 hit single "This Gift".