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A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been translated into several languages; the story has been adapted many times for film, stage, opera and other media. A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the early Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of ...
William Sandys (1792 – 18 February 1874) (pronounced "Sands") was an English solicitor, member of the Percy Society, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and remembered for his publication Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London, Richard Beckley, 1833), a collection of seasonal carols that Sandys had gathered and also apparently improvised.
The New Oxford Book of Carols is a collection of vocal scores of Christmas carols. It was first published in 1992 by Oxford University Press (OUP) and was edited by Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott . It is a widely used source of carols in among choirs and church congregations in Britain.
Fully titled "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas," Dickens' now-iconic tale was initially published on Dec. 19, 1843.
The 2014 radio-play presentation of "A Christmas Carol" at New York Public Radio's Greene Space was directed by Peabody Award-winning director and producer Elliott Forrest, center, and led by Mark ...
The Oxford Book of Carols has been reprinted many times. It was re-engraved and reset in a slightly larger format in 1964, at which time some of the medieval carols were re-edited. The most recent impression is dated 26 January 1984 and is still in print. The New Oxford Book of Carols was published in 1992 by OUP. Anthologists Hugh Keyte and ...
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] Although there is a second tune known as 'Cornish', in print by 1833 [10] and referred to as "the usual version" in the 1928 Oxford Book of Carols, this version is seldom heard today. [11]
The word carol is derived from the Old French word carole, a circle dance accompanied by singers (in turn derived from the Latin choraula).Carols were very popular as dance songs from the 1150s to the 1350s, after which their use expanded as processional songs sung during festivals, while others were written to accompany religious mystery plays (such as the "Coventry Carol", written before 1534).