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"Carol of the Bells" is a popular Christmas carol, which is based on the Ukrainian New Year's song "Shchedryk". The music for the carol comes from the song written by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in or before 1916; the English-language lyrics were written in 1936 by American composer of Ukrainian origin Peter Wilhousky.
L'église Saint-Louis. Charpentier composed the Messe de minuit pour Noël c. 1694 for the Jesuit church of the Église Saint-Louis in Paris where he was music director. He upheld a longstanding tradition for this mass to be celebrated around midnight as the first of three on Christmas Day: to base the music on melodies of French noëls (Christmas carols).
The quintessential Christmas crush song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" finally hit No. 1 in 2019—25 years after its initial release! 2. Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"
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 ...
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.
Here's the best modern and new Christmas music to refresh your holiday playlist in 2024, featuring hits from Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and more.
The Christmas Angel: A Family Story; Christmas Celebration; The Christmas Collection (Il Divo album) Christmas Extraordinaire; Christmas Hymns and Carols/You Do Something to Me; Christmas in the Aire; Christmas in Vienna VI; Christmas Live; Christmas Song (album) Christmas Symphony (Mannheim Steamroller album) Christmas Symphony II
Christmas Day: Luke 2:1–14 (theme: Nativity, Annunciation to the shepherds and the angels' song). Second Day of Christmas: Luke 2:15–20 (theme: Adoration of the Shepherds). Third Day of Christmas: John 1:1–14 – prologue of the Gospel of John, also known as Hymn to the Word. New Year's Day: Luke 2:21 (theme: Circumcision of Jesus)