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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 ...
"The First Noel" ("The First Nowell") English traditional 1823 First published in Carols Ancient and Modern by William Sandys "The Friendly Beasts" French Traditional 12th century English by Robert Davis 1934 "Gabriel's Message" translated into English by Sabine Baring-Gould: from the Basque traditional carol "Birjina gaztettobat zegoen"
Carols for Choirs is a collection of choral scores, predominantly of Christmas carols and hymns, first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press.It was edited by Sir David Willcocks and Reginald Jacques, and is a widely used source of carols in the British Anglican tradition and among British choral societies. [1]
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 ...
"Here We Come A-wassailing" (or "Here We Come A-Caroling"), also known as "Here We Come A-Christmasing", "Wassail Song" and by many other names, is a traditional English Christmas carol and New Year song, [1] typically sung whilst wassailing, or singing carols, wishing good health and exchanging gifts door to door. [2]
William Sandys (1792 – 18 February 1874) (pronounced "Sands") was an English solicitor, member of the Percy Society, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and remembered for his publication Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London, Richard Beckley, 1833), a collection of seasonal carols that Sandys had gathered and also apparently improvised.
It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 19 December 1958 with the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Concert Orchestra and Singers conducted by John Churchill, and produced by Noel Iliff and Geraldine Stephenson. [4] The work presents a sequence of carols and scenes bookmarked between God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen and The First Nowell: [3]
I have never before seen First Nowell-- only Noel or Noël, and so I was pretty suprised to see "First Noel" redirect to this. Even in the Lyrics use Noel (not Nowell). Anyway, I did some checking. Webster's Dictionary ONLY shows Noel and Chambers Dictionary shows both Noel and Nowell. Under Noel or Noël noun, Chambers notes also Nowell.
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