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- Music associated with Christmas is thought to have its origins in 4th-century Rome, in Latin-language hymns such as Veni redemptor gentium. By the 13th century, under the influence of Francis of Assisi, the tradition of popular Christmas songs in regional native languages developed.
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Dec 19, 2023 · The Christmas carol can be traced back to Austria. It was written by Joseph Mohr, a priest at the Catholic St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf and first performed in 1818.
Dec 23, 2021 · If we take the dictionary definition, Christmas carols are “traditional songs that are sung just before Christmas that celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ”. But look deeper, and you’ll find a long and fascinating history...
Dec 20, 2016 · Alamy. The familiar tunes never fail to get us in the festive mood – but many of them have remarkably un-Christmassy roots, writes Mark Forsyth. The Christmas carol service was invented in...
Apr 18, 2019 · While many Christmas songs are rooted in Christian traditions, the holiday season is celebrated in various ways around the world. Songs like “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel” come from the Jewish Hanukkah tradition, and there are secular winter songs that celebrate the season without a religious context.
- Ellie Cawthorne
- The Twelve Days of Christmas. Alexandra Coghlan: Of all the Christmas carols we sing today, none presents more of a challenge than The Twelve Days of Christmas, with its baffling list of lyrics.
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas. AC: What’s interesting about this catchy little carol are the customs it reveals. Both wassailing and mumming were still going strong under the Tudor monarchs, with carollers and players going from door to door performing.
- Deck the Halls. AC: One popular 16th-century song was the carol we know today as Deck the Halls. Back then it was a favourite Welsh song, originally titled Nos Galan.
- The Holly and the Ivy. So try as Christian carol writers might to impose their own symbols on the plants – the red holly berry as Jesus’s blood, the white holly flower his shroud – they have to work hard to displace earlier layers of meaning.
Dec 5, 2023 · From medieval dancing songs to the 19th-century revival, the words and music of carols have evolved over time as each generation of carol singers continues to add to a mixed tradition of folk music and sacred song.
Dec 19, 2013 · The earliest Christmas songs date back to the Middle Ages by unknown writers, with still-popular tunes inspired by Bible verses like “What Child is This?” and “O Come, O Come Emmanuel."
