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2. Christmas cantata - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas cantata outside the classical music tradition was the 1986 project The Animals' Christmas by Jimmy Webb and Art Garfunkel. In 1995, Bruckner's Fest-Kantate Preiset den Herrn, WAB 16, has undergone an adaptation as Festkantate zur Weihnacht (festive Christmas cantata) for mixed choir with Herbert Vogg’s text "Ehre sei Gott in der ...

3. Christmas Oratorio - Wikipedia

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   The Christmas Oratorio (German: Weihnachtsoratorium), BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.It is in six parts, each part a cantata intended for performance in a church service on a feast day of the Christmas period.

4. Christmas music - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. O Holy Night - Wikipedia

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   According to the secretary of the archbishop, the reason for the ban of these songs was the desire for the promotion and exclusive use of Gregorian chant and Gregorian music. [11] John Sullivan Dwight first discovered "O Holy Night" while researching songs to critique for his publication Dwight's Journal of Music. Dwight praised the song, but ...

6. List of Christmas operas - Wikipedia

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   The opera won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. [66] A Christmas Carol, composed by Iain Bell to a libretto by Simon Callow based on Dickens's A Christmas Carol, premiered on 5 December 2014 at Houston Grand Opera. The work is a 90-minute chamber opera for orchestra and one singer in which he portrays multiple characters in the story.

7. Songs of Joy & Peace - Wikipedia

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   Songs of Joy and Peace is a Christmas music album by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, released on October 14, 2008. The album won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album .

8. Christmas Concerto - Wikipedia

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   12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Johnston, Blair. Concerto Grosso in G minor (Christmas Concerto), Op. 6/8 at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 September 2012. Free typeset sheet music from Cantorion.org (this is an arrangement for string quartet, not the original)

9. Carol Symphony - Wikipedia

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   Hely-Hutchinson was the BBC's Director of Music from 1944 until his death in 1947. During the 1940 and 1950s, the first movement was used to assist tuning into the BBC Home Service station before the start of the morning transmission during the Christmas period.