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"La Marche Des Rois Mages" 13th century traditional Translated into English as "March of the Kings" or "Sing Noel: A Christmas Fanfare" with words by Jay Althouse "Entre le bœuf et l'âne gris" 13th or 16th century Title translation: "Between the ox and the grey donkey" "Çà, bergers, assemblons-nous"
Chants et contes de Noël (English: "Christmas songs and tales") is the fifth French-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released in Quebec, Canada on 3 December 1983. It is also her second Christmas album .
Lyrics for "D'où viens-tu, bergère" were published in Vieilles chansons patoises du Périgord (1888, 2nd ed. 1903) as collected by Emmanuel Casse and Eugène Chaminade. [2] The song was adapted in 1866 into English by William McLennan [ 3 ] with the title "Whence art thou, my maiden?"
The 19th-century "Cantique de Noël" (also known as "Minuit, chrétiens", adapted as "O Holy Night" in English) is another classic. "Dans cette étable" and "Venez Divin Messie" are also popular Christmas carols. Perhaps the best known traditional French carol, "Il est né, le divin Enfant", comes from the region of Provence. [41]
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 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 ...
The term is called Weihnachtskantate in German, and Cantate de Noël in French. Christmas cantatas have been written on texts in several other languages, such as Czech, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish. Christmas cantata can also mean the performance of the music. Many choirs have a tradition of an annual Christmas cantata.
Céline Dion chante Noël (English: "Celine Dion sings Christmas") is the second French-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released in Quebec, Canada on 4 December 1981. It is also her first Christmas album .