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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 ...
"Be Blessed Without End" 1929–1938 Ottokar Kernstock: Joseph Haydn [note 5] Azerbaijan "Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist Respublikasının Himni" "Anthem of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic" 1991–1992 Suleyman Rustam Samad Vurgun Huseyn Arif: Uzeyir Hajibeyov — Belarus "Vajacki marš" [trans 4] "March of the Warriors" 1918–1919 Makar ...
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries.Originally, and in music theory and religious contexts, it also refers more particularly to short sacred choral work (still frequently seen in Sacred Harp and other types of shape note singing) and still more particularly to a specific form of ...
There’s no formal start date to begin rocking around the Christmas tree. It found Americans started to seriously stream Christmas music on November 13. Nations like Denmark, Finland and Norway ...
According to its website, SiriusXM's "official year-round channel for holiday music, Holiday Traditions (Ch. 602), is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for the biggest Christmas fans around.
God Bless America" also spawned another of Irving Berlin's tunes, "Heaven Watch The Philippines," during the end of World War II. The Philippines was an American possession since 1898 and recently liberated from Japanese occupation ; Berlin wrote it after he heard Filipinos singing a modified version of the song replacing "America" with "The ...
Every New Year’s Eve brings about many attempts at singing the one song everybody associates with the holiday: “Auld Lang Syne.” Few partygoers, however, know the words, and fewer still ...