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Dec 23, 2021 · Why aren’t Christmas carols sung all year round? “Oh, well I wish it could be Christmas everyday, When the kids start singing and the band begins to play...” rock band Wizzard first sung in the 1970s.
Dec 20, 2016 · You see, before this, Christmas carols hadn’t been sung in the church, they’d been sung in the pub. Carols were folk songs; originally they were folk dances (that’s what ‘carol’ meant...
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- Origins of Carols. The word 'carol' tends to be exclusively associated with sacred songs related to Christmas, but it once had a wider meaning and referred to several different genres of music used in medieval church services across Europe.
- Carols in the 19th Century. The carol genre made a strong comeback in the latter stages of the 19th century, largely thanks to the increase in popularity of the Christmas celebration and, rather ironically for such religious music, because the holiday became increasingly secular and commercial.
- Carol Singing. People sang carols at home by the family piano, very often after dinner in the Christmas period. They also sang in taverns, a tradition that remains strong in certain counties of England, especially Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire.
- Five Popular Carols. The 20th century continued to see an interest in carols, and scholars endeavoured to catalogue the original tunes and arrangements, sometimes returning them to resemble more their medieval appearance and sound.
Christmas carols in English first appeared in a 1426 work of John Awdlay, a Shropshire chaplain, who lists twenty five 'caroles of Cristemas', probably sung by groups of 'wassailers', who went from house to house.
Dec 28, 2013 · According to Susan Hempstead, who sings in the choir at St Andrew's Church, in Nuthurst, the composer Vaughan Williams overheard it being sung by a Mrs Verrall from the nearby village of...
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Dec 22, 2016 · Christmas carols have been sung in towns and villages for hundreds of years, with many places having their own local songs. This was long before the days of CD players and radios, so...
Christianity spread across Europe from the fourth to the 14th centuries, and the first carols were produced by Franciscan friars (pictured here in the 1940s), who were followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. These took the form of a dance in a circle with linked hands and everybody singing the song.
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