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The
Hymns and Carols This site is called "The Hymns and Carols of Christmas."
Concerning the hymns see
The Theology of Christmas Music by Dr. Robert A. Pyne. Painting left:
"Song of the Angels," by
Adolphe-William Bouguereau, 1881.
of Christmas
Welcome to the heart of this site, the
gateway to the Hymns and Carols of Christmas. As I mentioned on
the home page, the purpose of this site is to preserve the rich
history of Christmas carols and hymns which might otherwise be
lost. Certainly there are many traditions such as the sending of
Christmas Cards that are well worth preserving. The ultimate
goal is to have the largest collection of hymns and carols of
Christmas ever published in the English language.
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Indices of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas:
Full
Index
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On many pages, you will see links to
"Noteworthy Composer files" and "XML files."
For more information about these two formats, see:
NWC & XML.
Non-English
Carols and Hymns
Table of Contents
Bibliography
Includes links to other sites and to Amazon.com for
printed collections, histories, etc.
Calendars
of Carols
November, December and January
The Christmas-tide Carols of Shirley Erena Murray
Advent - Resources for the Season
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Multi-media video presentations about favorite carols from Ron Clancy, author of the Christmas Classics™ series of beautifully illustrated Christmas carol books. Updates will appear approximately daily through early December, 2009. A total of 22 videos are expected to be linked.
Some Feast Days During the Christmas-Tide
St. Nicholas
Feast Day: December 6
From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus: A History
St Stephen
(December 26)
St. John The Evangelist
(December 27)
The Holy Innocents
(December 28)
Tables of Contents
Theodoricus Petri, Piæ Cantiones ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum Griefswald, Sweden: 1582
Christmas Carols of Waddinge and Devereux
Bishop Luke Waddinge and Rev. William Devereux
Luke
Wadding, A Small Garland of Pious & Godly Songs,
1684
William Devereux, A New Garland, containing
songs for Christmas, ca. 1730
Joseph Ritson, ed., Ancient Songs and Ballads From The Reign of King Henry
the Second To The Revolution. 1790.
W. Carew Hazlitt, ed., Third Edition.
London: Reeves And Turner, 1877.
Repr. Detroit, MI: Singing Tree Press, 1968.
Table of
Contents
Davies Gilbert, Some Ancient Christmas Carols
London: John Nichols And Son, 1822
London: John Nichols And Son, Second Edition, 1823
Preface
Table Of Contents
William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern
London:
Richard Beckley, 1833
Introduction
Christmas Play of Saint George
Table
of Contents
Thomas Wright, Specimens of Old Christmas Carols
The Percy Society, 1841
Table of Contents
Thomas Wright, Songs and Carols
The Percy Society, 1847
Table of
Contents
William Sandys, Christmas-tide, Its History,
Festivities and Carols, With Their Music
London: John Russell Smith, 1852
A Mock Play
Christmas Play of St. George and the Dragon
Table of Contents
Rev.
John Mason Neale and Rev. Thomas Helmore,
Carols
for Christmas-tide
London: Novello, 1853
Rev. J. (John)
Freeman Young, ed., Carols For
Christmas Tide
New York: Daniel Dana, Jr., 1859
Earth Today
Rejoices
Earthly
Friends Will Change And Falter
Good
Christian Men Rejoice
Good
King Wenceslas
Here
Is Joy For Every Age
Royal
Day That Chasest Gloom
Silent Night, Holy Night
Also see additional notes in
Hymns and Music For The Young - Parts One & Two - J. F. Young.
John Clark Hollister, ed., The Sunday-School
Service and Tune Book
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1863, 1865.
Table of Contents
John Henry Hopkins, Jr., Carols, Hymns and Songs
New York: Church Book Depository, 1863
The Angel
Chorus
Evergreen,
Holly And Laurel
The Christmas Tree
The
Shepherds of Bethlehem
Three Kings Of Orient
Joshua Sylvester, A Garland of Christmas Carols, Ancient and
Modern
(London: John Camden Hotten, 1861)
Reprinted by A. Wessels Company, New York, 1901 & 1905
Table of Contents
and Introduction
Edward F. Rimbault, A Little Book
Of Christmas Carols.
London: Cramer, Beale & Co., 201, Regent Street, No Date (circa
1863).
Preface
Table Of Contents
William Henry Husk, Songs of the Nativity
London: John
Camden Hotten, 1868, reprinted by Norwood Editions, Norwood, PA, 1873
Introduction
Table of
Contents
Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer,
Christmas Carols
New and Old
London: Novello, Ewer & Co., ca 1871, 1878
Introduction To The First Series
Introduction To The Second Series
Introduction To A Combined Volume 1871 (First and Second Series)
Introduction To A Combined Volume
(First, Second & Third Series)
Table
of Contents
A. H. Bullen, A Christmas Garland: Carols and Poems
From
The Fifteenth Century To
The Present Time
London: John C. Nimmo,
1885
Preface
Table of Contents
J. H. Hopkins,
Great Hymns of the Church
Compiled
By The Late
Right Reverend
John Freeman Young
New York: James Pott & Company, 1887
Preface
Table of Contents
J. A. Fuller Maitland, English Carols of the Fifteenth
Century
London: The Leadenhall Press, E.C., ca. 1891.
Introduction
Table of Contents
Appendix
Richard R. Chope, Carols For Use In Church
London: William Clowes & Sons, The Complete Edition, 1894
Introduction
Table of
Contents
Carol Services
Rev. John Brownlie,
Christmas Hymns from The East
38 Translations from Six Collections, 1900-1913
George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cowley Carol Book
First Series, Expanded and Enlarged,
Preface To First
Series
London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., ca. 1902
Second Series,
Preface To Second Series
London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., ca. 1912
Table Of
Contents
Phillips Brooks, Christmas Songs and Easter Carols
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1903
Table of Contents
George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., Songs of Syon
London: Schott & Co., Third Edition, 1908
Table
of Contents
Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols
London: Chatto & Windus, 1910
Introduction
Table of Contents
Glossary
Illustrations
Cecil J. Sharp, English Folk-Carols
London: Novello & Co., 1911
Table of Content, Preface, and Introduction
Richard R. Terry,
Twelve Christmas Carols
London:
J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd., 1912
Table Of Contents
Martin Shaw and Percy Dearmer, The English Carol Book
London: Mowbray & Co., Ltd.
First
Series, 1913
Second
Series, 1919
Complete
Edition, 1938
Carol Service, 1947
Charles
L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New
Boston: Parish Choir, 1916
Table of Contents
Charles Wood and George Ratcliffe Woodward, eds., An Italian Carol Book
London: The Faith Press, Ltd., 1920
Table of Contents and Preface
George Ratcliffe Woodward,
The Babe Of Bethlehem
Being Some Christmas Carols
Hillsgate Village, 1923
Table Of Contents
Charles Wood and George
Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cambridge Carol-Book
Being Fifty-Two
Songs For Christmas, Easter, And Other Seasons
London: Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1924
Table of Contents
W. A. Pickard-Cambridge, A
Collection of Dorset Carols
London: A. W. Ridley & Co., 1926
Preface
Table of Contents
This significant collection has been overlooked;
I would recommend this volume to the serious student of carols.
Ralph Dunstan, The Cornish Song Book (Lyver Canow
Kernewek)
London: Reid Bros., Ltd., 1929
Introduction To Cornish Carols
Cornish Carols
Richard R. Terry,
Gilbert and Sandys' Christmas Carols
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, Ltd., 1931
Preface
Table of Contents
Roy Ringwald, Book Of American Carols
Penn State University, 2004
Index
William Hone, The
Every Day Book
2 Vols.
London: William Tegg, 1825, 1827.
Brand's Popular
Antiquities Of Great Britain
Selections from Hazlitt's Edition of 1905
Coming Soon Are Excerpts From the Ellis Edition of 1888
Other Christmas Literature and Reference Works
A Little Book for Christmas - Cyrus Townsend Brady (1917)
A Righte Merrie Christmasse!!! - John Ashton (1894)
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England - Robert Bell (1857) (Text)
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England - Robert Bell (PDF)
Another Easy Christmas Book - Ruth Putnam Kimball (PDF, Illustrated; Source: Internet Archive)
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories - Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - William Francis Dawson (1902)
Christmas: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse - Robert Haven Schauffler (1907; from the Our American Holidays series; PDF, Illustrated; Source: Internet Archive)
Christmas Entertainments - Alice Maude Kellogg (Text)
Christmas In Legend And Story - Elva S. Smith and Alice I. Hazeltine (1915)
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan - Clement A. Miles (1912)
Christmas Stories And Legends - Phebe A. Curtiss (1916) (Text)
The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations - Gustave Doré (1891)
Folk Lore of East Yorkshire - John Nicholson (1890)
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - Alban
Butler
January-February-March (1895)
Holiday Stories for Young People - Margaret E. Sangster
The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For Children - Anonymous
Our Holidays: Their Meaning and Spirit - from St. Nicholas Magazine
Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore - Charles Hardwick (1872)
Yule-Tide in Many Lands - Mary P. Pringle and Clara A. Urann (1916)
Latin for Beginners - Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1911)
New Latin Grammar - Charles E. Bennett (1895, 1908, 1918)
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader - John Kirtland (1903)
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin - Frances Ellen Lord
A_Latin_English_Dictionary-Thomas Hewitt Key (1888)
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Collections of Christmas Carols & Poetry
Compiled and Edited by
Douglas D. Anderson
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Victorian Visions |
Divinely Inspired |
The Bridegroom Cometh |
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Other books by Doug Anderson |
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Once A Lovely Shining Star A Christmas Poetry Collection |
So Gracious Is The Time A Christmas Poetry Collection |
How Still The Night The Christmas Poems of Father Andrew, S.D.C. |
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Father and Daughter Christmas Poems by Frances and William Havergal |
Now, Now The Mirth Comes Christmas Poetry by Robert Herrick |
What Sudden Blaze Of Song The Christmas Poems of Rev. John Keble |
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A Holy Heavenly Chime The Christmastide Poems of Christina Georgina Rossetti |
All My Heart This Night Rejoices The Christmas Poems of Catherine Winkworth |
A Victorian Carol Book Favorites from the 19th Century — |
Other Books by Doug Anderson
A Psalter – A Book of the Psalms Arranged by Luther's Categories
Betbüchlein: A Personal Prayer Book, a recreation of Luther's 1529 prayer book
Daily Prayer
Luther's Passional
Luther's Writings on Prayer: A Selection
Devotions for the Advent – 2009
A new edition for 2010 is being prepared.
The Lenten Sermons of Martin Luther, Second Edition
Descriptions of all these volumes can be seen at
Books by Doug
Anderson
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