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The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christmas singles charts during the Christmas seasons of 1983–1985, [241] [166] and bubbled under the Hot 100 in 1992. [125] The best-selling novelty Christmas single of all time in the U.S., [ citation needed ] it spawned toys and an animated TV special that remain popular each year.
A Christmas No. 1 single on the Official Singles Chart in 1994, famous for beating Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" to that 1994 Christmas No. 1 spot. It has no Christmas-themed lyrics, although it has a Christmas themed video as well as an alternative video that has no Christmas theme. "Step Into Christmas" Elton John: 1973
The Oratorio de Noël, Op. 12, by Camille Saint-Saëns, also known as his Christmas Oratorio, is a cantata-like work scored for soloists, chorus, organ, strings and harp. While an organist at La Madeleine , Saint-Saëns wrote the Christmas oratorio in less than a fortnight, completing it ten days before its premiere on Christmas 1858. [ 1 ]
Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick"). The term "fingerstyle" is something of a misnomer, since it is present ...
A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical, electric, or acoustic guitar. In 20th and 21st century traditional music and popular music such as blues , swing , jazz , jazz fusion , rock and heavy metal , guitar solos often contain virtuoso techniques ...
The classical guitar is a solo polyphonic instrument. Classical guitar techniques can be organized broadly into subsections for the right hand, the left hand, and miscellaneous techniques. In guitar, performance elements such as musical dynamics (loudness or softness) and tonal/ timbral variation are mostly determined by the hand that ...
Melody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", from Austin's 1909 arrangement. The now-standard melody for the carol was popularised by the English baritone and composer Frederic Austin. The singer, having arranged the music for solo voice with piano accompaniment, included it in his concert repertoire from 1905 onwards. [69]
The design posted on billboards in 12 major cities by John Lennon and Yoko Ono "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" was the culmination of more than two years of peace activism undertaken by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that began with the bed-ins they convened in March and May 1969, the first of which took place during their honeymoon.