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1. Language. Swedish. Composed. 1897. (1897) –1913. The Five Christmas Songs, Op. 1, [a] is a collection of Swedish -language art songs for vocal soloist and piano written from 1897 to 1913 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
Christmas carol. Composer (s) Traditional with additions by Frederic Austin. " The Twelve Days of Christmas " is an English Christmas carol. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that ...
The silent Word is pleading. Nails, spear shall pierce him through, The cross be borne for me, for you. Hail, hail the Word made flesh, The babe, the son of Mary. So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh, Come, peasant, king, to own him; The King of kings salvation brings, Let loving hearts enthrone him. Raise, raise a song on high,
Christmas. Songwriter (s) Robert Wells. Mel Tormé. " The Christmas Song " (commonly subtitled " Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire " or, as it was originally subtitled, " Merry Christmas to You ") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 [note 1] by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song in June 1946.
"Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" is a Christmas song performed by English singer-songwriter David Bowie and American singer Bing Crosby. Recorded on 11 September 1977 at ATV Elstree Studios near London for Crosby's television special Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, the song features Crosby singing 1941 standard "The Little Drummer Boy" while Bowie sings the counterpoint tune "Peace on ...
Caswall wrote "See, amid the winter's snow" shortly after converting from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church and joining the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. The hymn was published earliest in 1858 as part of The Masque of Mary and Other Poems by Caswall. [3] In 1871, John Goss wrote the tune "Humility" specifically for the carol.
English traditional carol. Meter. 7.6.8.6 with refrain. "The Holly and the Ivy" with piano accompaniment by Cecil James Sharp (1911) " The Holly and the Ivy " is a traditional British folk Christmas carol, listed as number 514 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song can be traced only as far as the early nineteenth century, but the lyrics reflect ...
English. Released. 1982. Genre. Christmas. Songwriter (s) Billy Butt. " Christmas in New York " is a Christmas song written by Billy Butt at the piano of the Church of Sweden in New York in 1979. [1] It was recorded by John Wesley Shipp and released as a single in 1982, with "The Christmas Song" on its B-side.