The Christmas Carrolls: The perfect Christmas gift for fans of Pamela Butchart, Sibeal Pounder's Tinsel and Matt Haig: Book 1

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Good King Wenceslas", based on a legend about Saint Wenceslaus helping a poor man on 26 December (the Feast of Stephen) An American carol with a British tune. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear was written a decade before the American civil war by Unitarian minister Edmund Hamilton Sears. Although a tune was written a year later by Richard Storrs Willis to accompany it, the melody which has become famous in Europe was written by Arthur Sullivan - of Gilbert and Sullivan fame! Silent Night" comes from Austria. The carol was first performed in the Nikolaus-Kirche (Church of St. Nicholas) in Oberndorf, Austria on 24 December 1818. Mohr had composed the words much earlier, in 1816, but on Christmas Eve brought them to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for the church service. [16] The first English translation was in 1871 where it was published in a Methodist hymnal.

This year, we didn’t put up a Christmas tree, and I haven’t been feeling the “Christmas spirit.” But this book squarely right sided the situation. The ghostly visitors are not of the Christian kind, but ghost stories were popular in Victorian England. Each ghost is very distinctive in appearance and manner. Carols and their words continued to be disseminated, even in the 16th century when Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans tried to ban the singing of carols.

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Studwell, William E.; Jones, Dorothy E. (1998). Publishing Glad Tidings: Essays on Christmas Music. New York [u.a.]: Haworth Press. ISBN 9780789003980 . Retrieved 11 October 2016. Almost all the well-known carols were not sung in church until the second half of the 19th century. [ citation needed] Hymns Ancient and Modern 1861–1874 included several carols. A Christmas Carol (1984). Definitely the most faithful movie by far. Several quotations can be found through the whole film, which deviates little from the original script. George C. Scott plays a highly convincing Ebenezer. And also notable Warner, Rees and Tiny Tim. Aged well all things considered. Most recommendable for adults who want to enjoy a serious faithful adaptation.

Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: A permanent fixture in the traditional services of Lessons And Carols, this most famous of carols is set to a tune by Felix Mendelssohn. It began with a much more archaic name; ‘Hark How All The Welkin Rings’, (the welkin being an old-fashioned term for the heavens). But George Whitefield, a colleague of the lyricist Charles Wesley, thought that no-one would understand the meaning, and so he compiled his own hymnal and changed the words himself! In older times, caroling children asked for and were given edible gifts such as dried fruit, eggs, nuts or sweets; during the 20th century this was gradually replaced with money gifts – ranging from small change in the case of strangers to considerable amounts in the case of close relatives. Caroling is also done by marching bands, choirs, school students seeking to raise funds for trips or charity, members of folk societies, or merely by groups of well-wishers. Many internationally known carols, e.g. " Silent Night" and " O Tannenbaum", are also sung in Greek translation. Still, an immortal Christmas classic that requires no introduction. Recommendable, for the right audience.

Horsley, Charles Edward (12 March 1862). All my heart this night rejoices: Christmas hymn. Melbourne: C.E. Horsley – via Trove. Before carol singing in places like churches became popular, there were sometimes official carol singers called 'Waits'. These were bands of people led by important local leaders (such as council leaders) who had the only power in the towns and villages to take money from the public (if others did this, they were sometimes charged as beggars!). They were called 'Waits' because they sang on Christmas Eve (This was sometimes known as 'watchnight' or 'waitnight' because of the shepherds were watching their sheep when the angels appeared to them.), when the Christmas celebrations began. On Christmas Eve that year, the church organ was broken and it could not be fixed until the snow melted in the spring. Joseph was not disheartened and was determined that there would be music that Christmas. He remembered a simple poem he had written two years earlier and thought if only he could find an alternative instrument and suitable melody they could sing it in church. He asked his church organist, a man named Franz Gruber, to look at the poem and see what he could do.

Also, during the Victorian period, many orchestras and choirs were being set up in the cities of England and people wanted Christmas songs to sing, so carols once again became popular in churches and concert halls. Many new carols, such as 'Good King Wenceslas', were also written in the Victorian period.

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This piece was written in 1984. Originally for organ, the accompaniment was later scored by the composer for flute, oboe, harp and strings. It’s now a popular carol at Christmas Concerts in the U.K. and USA.