Hymns and Carols In Languages Other Than English Editor's Note: I do not speak any language other than English (of the American persuasion). It is for that reason that this site is generally restricted to carols and hymns in the English language. I have attempted to learn other languages -- notably French and Greek -- and at this time would like to publicly apologize to those instructors, of which I have wasted a total of three years of their professional endeavors. I do not vouch for the rendition in any language of any carol -- or even of the correct identification of language -- and any expert in any such language is cordially invited to correct any errors in either the original or any free translations. The gentle correction will be the most well-received. In addition, please feel free to bring to my attention any collections of carols in languages other than English. I will happily link to such sites here and at the Links page. Doug Anderson
Editor and Webmaster 
Andalucian Austrian Catalonian Czech Dutch French German Hungary:
See Christmas In Hungary for some Hungarian Traditions, and
Hungarian Christmas Songs
(Thanks to Annamária for these links!) Italian Latin Polish Romanian Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland) Welsh
Andalucian Austrian Catalonian Czech Dutch French Numerous French carols can be found at MUSIQUE MAESTRO Additional carols can be found at
French Christmas Carols - Chants de Noël German An excellent source of German carols -- and carols in other languages -- is 20,000 Volkslieder, Germany and Other Folksongs
Italian Latin A Sortis Ortus Cardine Adeste Fideles Agnus Dei Angelum misit suum Deus omnipotens Angelus Ad Virginem Christe, Redemptor Omnium Corde Natus Ex Parentis Dies est lætitiæ Dies iræ, dies illa Et virgine natus, Christe, es sine macula In hoc anni circulo In natali Domini - Version 1 In natali Domini - Version 2 In natali Domini (Sheet Music only; GIF file) Jesu Redemptor Onmium Jesu, geh voran Jure Plaudant Omnia (Sheet Music only; GIF file) Lully, Lully, Lu (Alternate Title: Qui creavit coelum; Carol of the Nuns of St. Mary's, Chester) Majestati sacrosanctæ O Lux Beata Trinitas O Sanctissima - Latin Prayer Paean Alphabeticus de Christo Personent hodie Puer Natus in Bethlehem Puer nobis nascitur Quæ stella sole pulchrior Quem pastores laudavere Qui creavit coelum, lully, lully, lu (Alternate Title: Lully, Lully, Lu; carol of the Nuns of St. Mary's, Chester) Resonet In Laudibus Resonet In Laudibus - Version 2 Resonet In Laudibus - Version 3 Sancte Dei, pretiose Silens nox, sacra nox Silens nox, sancta nox Tranquilla Nox, Sancta Nox Veni Creator Spiritus Veni, Redemptor Gentium Veni Veni Emanuel Verbum Supernum Prodiens (St. Thomas Aquinas) Verbum Supernum Prodiens - Version 2 (St. Thomas Aquinas) Verbum supernum prodiens (Latin, 6th or 7th Century; an Advent Hymn) Verbum quod ante secula Vox clara ecce intonat
An excellent Latin resource is Michael Martin, "Thesaurus Precum Latinarum: Treasury of Latin Prayers," Latin hymns are found on his Hymni page. He has many other excellent resources for the Latin student or scholar. His Links page is worth checking out, too.
Polish At Polish Christmas Carols and Customs, you can read an extended account of the Polish carols arranged by Kazimierz Hubert. Also, an introduction to the beautiful Christmas music of Poland. Links to many other Polish carols and to many Polish sites. The main page for this site is The Christmas Archives, which contains a large amount of Christmas-related information.
Romanian Three traditional carols furnished by Cristian Mocanu, a member of Christmas International Additional Romanian carols can be found at Romanian Christmas Carols (both lyrics and MIDI files at Angelfire), Colinde Romanesti de Craciun (with some wonderful WAV files by the Madrigal Choir), and Colinde (for purists only; it's in Romanian, as nearly as I can tell). Concerning customs generally, please see Romanian Christmas and Another Romanian Christmas, plus Christmas And St. Nicholas Day (with links to several other Romanian Christmas sites).
Scandinavian Bjældeklang [Jingle Bells] Bjelleklang, [Jingle Bells, Text by Juul Hansen, see Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985)] Barn Jesus Bort, Verdens Jule-Glæde [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson; No English Translation] Deilig er den himmel blå - Version 1 [Danish by Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig] Deilig er jorden [Danish by Bernhardt Severin Ingemann] Den yndigste Rose er funden [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson] Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest [Danish by Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig; with Norwegian version also] Det var en juleaften silde [Danish; No English Translation] Du grønne glitrende tre En lille nisse rejste [Danish; No English Translation] Et Barn Er Født I Betlehem [Danish by Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig] Et lidet barn så lysteligt [Danish by Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig; No English Translation] Fra Himlen højt kom budskab her [Danish; No English Translation] Frisk op til Fryd, alt Christen Blood [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson; No English Translation] Frisk op! Endnu engang [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson; No English Translation] Glade jul, dejlige jul [Danish by Bernhardt Severin Ingemann; Silent Night, Holy Night] Glade jul, hellige jul! [Norwegian; Silent Night, Holy Night] Hei tomtegubber, ta i ring [Norwegian; No English Translation] Her Kommer, Jesus, Dine Små [Danish by Hans Adolph Brorson] Her kommer dine arme sma [Norwegian] Hjerte, løft din glædes vinger! [Danish translation from German; No English Translation] Højt for træets grønne top [No English Translation] Hvordan takke vi vor Herre [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson; No English Translation] I denne søde Jule-Tiid [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson; No English Translation] Ind under jul, hvor er det trist [Danish; No English Translation] Jeg Er Saa Glad Hver Julekveld Jeg gikk meg over sjø og land Jeg så julemanden kysse mor [Adaptation in Danish of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"] Jeg synger julekvad [Norwegian; No English translation; to the tune of "Good Christian Men, Rejoice." See "I Am Singing a Christmas Song," Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985)] Julekveldsvise Julen har bragt velsignet bud [Danish by Bernhardt Severin Ingemann] Julen har englelyd [Danish by Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig; No English Translation] Juletræet med sin pynt (Words: Mogens Lorentzen, 1939 (Peter Faber, 1848?); Music: Egil Harder, 1940) Kimer, I klokker [Norwegian; originally Danish by Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, "Ring, Ye Bells"] Kom, Hierte! tag dit Regne-Bræt [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson; No English Translation] Mit Hierte altid vancker [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson; No English Translation] Mitt hjerte alltid vanker [Norwegian; No English translation] Musevisa, [Norwegian; No English translation; see "The Mice Celebrate Christmas," Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985)] Nå tennes tusen julelys [Norwegian; No English translation] Når du ser et stjerneskud [Danish; No English Translation] När Juldagsmorgon Glimmar Nu Är Det Jul Igen Nu har vi altså jul igen (Words: Holger Buchhave, 1956) Nu vel an! et freydigt Mood! [Danish by Hans Adolph Bronson; No English Translation] O Jul Med Din Glede Og reven rasker over isen [Norwegian; No English translation] Os Er Idag En Frelser Foedt [Birgitte Boye, 1778] På låven sitter nissen [Norwegian; No English Translation, see "The 'Nisse' In The Barn," Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985)] På loftet sidder nissen med sin julegrøød Rudolf er rod pa nesen [Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer, copyright ; Norwegian translation, No English Translation, see "Rudolph Has A Red Nose," Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985) Sa gar vi rundt om en enebaerbusk [Norwegian] Santa Lucia [Swedish; English Translation available at Don Erickson's Swedish Folk Songs web page] Sikken voldsom trængsel og alarm [No English Translation] Søren Banjomus (Words & Music: Otto Brandenburg (1934-2007), 1969 Til julebal i Nisseland [No English Translation] Velkommen igen, Guds engle små [Danish by Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig; No English Translation] Vaer velkommen, Herrens år [Danish by Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig; No English Translation]
Don Erickson has provided words and MIDI sequences to numerous Swedish Folk Songs
on his site, including several Christmas songs. Welsh See Jeanne Pasero's site, Christmas in Wales for more information about Welsh traditions, including a Welsh version of Silent Night: Tawel nos dros y byd. This is just one of many Christmas-related pages on her very large site. Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda! (?)
On many pages, you will see links to
"Noteworthy Composer files" and "XML files."
For more information about these two formats, see:
NWC & XML.
Full
Index
Caution: Will Open Slowly On A Dial-up Connection
Table of
Contents
Non-English Carols and Hymns
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Includes links to other sites and to Amazon.com for
printed collections, histories, etc.
Sheet Music
Sources
Free Christmas MP3s
Carol Services
Calendars
of Carols
November, December and January
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
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. 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 Sylvestre, A Garland of Christmas Carols, Ancient and
Modern
London: 1861, reprinted by A. Wessels Company, New York, 1901
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
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
Christmas Poetry And Prose
What Is Meter?
Hymnals And Carol Collections
Collections Being
Sought
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)
Please visit and support Project Gutenberg
Holiday music brings holiday cheer!
Enhance your browsing experience!
Listen to streaming Christmas music.
Two of my favorites are ChristmasRadio.com and ChristmasBroadband.com
A large listing can be located at Web Radio.
|
