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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 ...
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The March of the Kings or The March of the Wise Men (French: La Marche des rois or La marche des Rois mages; Provençal: La Marcha dei reis) is a popular Christmas carol of provençal origin celebrating the Epiphany and the Wise Men. Recognition of the theme spread outside Provence when Georges Bizet used it in his incidental music for Arlésienne.
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.
15. "Loving Father, Help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and worship of the wise men.
200 Best Christmas Songs 1. Mariah Carey, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" ... Boyz II Men and Brian McKnight. 125. Beach Boys, "Santa's Got An Airplane" Let's be real, he'd need a cargo jet for ...
Some Christmas carols refer to the biblical Magi or Three Kings, especially hymns meant to be sung by the star singers, such as "Stern über Bethlehem". Peter Cornelius composed a song cycle, Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8, which contain the song "Die Könige" (The Kings), which became popular in an English choral arrangement, "The Three Kings".
The "meane" of chapter VIII in Christopher Tye's Actes of the Apostles of 1553.The latter half was adapted and used as the tune of "Winchester Old". "While shepherds watched their flocks" [1] is a traditional Christmas carol describing the Annunciation to the Shepherds, with words attributed to Irish hymnist, lyricist and England's Poet Laureate Nahum Tate. [2]