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Some view Christmas carols to be only religious in nature and consider Christmas songs to be secular. [1] Many traditional Christmas carols focus on the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus, while others celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas that range from 25 December to 5 January or Christmastide which ranges from 24 December to 5 ...
The 50 Best Christmas Carols of All Time ... Written in 1700 and originally titled "Song of the Angels," this hymn was the only one to hold official recognition from the Church of England until ...
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.
"Christmas Carol" Skip Ewing: 1990 Written in 1986 and first released on Ewing's 1990 album Following Yonder Star. First charted on Billboard 's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1996, peaking at No. 68. [126] [127] "Christmas Carols by the Old Corral" Tex Ritter: 1945 Peaked at No. 2 on Billboard 's Most-Played Juke Box Folk Records chart ...
' Christmas is the Best Story ', 2023), lyrics by Robert Labayen and Lawrence Arvin Sibug and music by Kiko Salazar and Jonathan Manalo "Sa Belen Tayo Uuwi" (2023), written by CI Russel Patolot, SSP "Christmas: Courageous Hope" (2023), written and music by Rev. Fr. Rico John Bilangel, C.Ss.R.
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 earliest known printed edition of the carol is in a broadsheet dated to c. 1760. [5] A precisely datable reference to the carol is found in the November 1764 edition of the Monthly Review. [6] Some sources claim that the carol dates as far back as the 16th century. [7] Others date it later, to the 18th or early 19th centuries. [8] [9]
"Masters in This Hall" (alternative title: "Nowell, Sing We Clear") is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. The carol is moderately popular around the world but has not entered the canon of most popular carols.