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Classical and early music performers of the song include the Boston Camerata and the Oxford Camerata. In 1967, the Monkees performed the song live on "The Monkees' Christmas Show", a Christmas episode of their TV series. [10] [11] A studio version was released on subsequent compilation albums (and later on the 2018 album Christmas Party).
"The Friendly Beasts" is a traditional Christmas song about the gifts that a donkey, cow, sheep, camel, and dove give to Jesus at the Nativity. The song seems to have originated in 12th-century France, set to the melody of the Latin song "Orientis Partibus". [1]
Radio has covered Christmas music from variety shows from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as modern-day stations that exclusively play Christmas music from late November through December 25. [159] Hollywood movies have featured new Christmas music, such as " White Christmas " in Holiday Inn and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer . [ 159 ]
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 ...
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 ...
Christmas Night (subtitled Carols of the Nativity) is a Christmas-themed album by The Cambridge Singers conducted by John Rutter. Most songs are sung a cappella , on others the choir is accompanied by The City of London Sinfonia .
A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas and holiday season. The term noel has sometimes been used, especially for carols of French origin. [1] Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category of Christmas music.