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The Selden Carol Book is a medieval carol manuscript held by the Bodleian Library in Oxford (MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26). [ 1 ] Along with the Trinity Carol Roll , with which it shares five contemporaneous carols and texts (for example the Agincourt Carol ), it is one of the main sources for 15th century English carols, and like the Trinity Roll ...
The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head. The stars in the bright sky looked down where he lay, The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay. The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes. I love thee, Lord Jesus! look down from the sky, And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh.
Perhaps the earliest version was written by George Wheler in his 1698 book The Protestant Monastery, which reads: [1] Upon lying down, and going to sleep. Here I lay me down to sleep.
Irish traditional, (Short Carol) "Christmas Day Is Come" (also known as "The Irish Carol") [20] [21] words by Fr. William Devereaux, 18th Century Irish traditional, Part of "The Kilmore Carols" "Codail A Linbh" / "Codail a Leanbh" ("Sleep Child") Lyrics are from 5th century poem, music by Michael McGlynn "The Kerry Christmas Carol" Irish ...
Personent hodie in the 1582 edition of Piae Cantiones, image combined from two pages of the source text. "Personent hodie" is a Christmas carol originally published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, a volume of 74 Medieval songs with Latin texts collected by Jacobus Finno (Jaakko Suomalainen), a Swedish Lutheran cleric, and published by T.P. Rutha. [1]
Jefferson Mays and his wife, Susan Lyons, talk about "A Christmas Carol" and the enduring appeal of Charles Dickens' 180-year ghost story of Christmas in an interview with USA Today Network New ...
It had been associated with the carol since at least the mid-18th century, when it was recorded by James Nares in a hand-written manuscript under the title "The old Christmas Carol". [13] Hone's version of the tune differs from the present melody in the third line. The full current melody was published by Chappell in 1855. [13] [14]
The Oxford Book of Carols is a collection of vocal scores of Christmas carols and carols of other seasons. It was first published in 1928 by Oxford University Press and was edited by Percy Dearmer, Martin Shaw and Ralph Vaughan Williams. It became a widely used source of carols among choirs and church congregations in Britain