Index of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas H Notes
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notes concerning the song will be found at the bottom of the first version. 3. You can search for a carol or hymn by using the [CTRL] + F combination -H-Hail The Blest Morn! Hail, Blessed Virgin, Full of Heavenly Grace (On The Infancy Of Our Saviour) Hail Mary, Full Of Grace, Mother In Virginity Hail Mary, Full of Grace (Marnie Barrell, copyright 2001; used with permission) Hail Mary, Star Of Morning Hail to the Lord Who Comes Hail to the Lord's AnointedHail To The Morn Hail, All Hail The Joyful Morn Hail, Comely and Clean! Hail, Young Child! Hail, Ever Hail, Thou Glorious Morn Hail, Gentle Jesus Hail, Hail, The Beautiful Morn Hath Dawned Hail, O Thou, Of Woman Born Hail, Sweet Babe, So Pure And Holy, #263 Hail, Sweet Babe, So Pure And Holy, #410 Hail, Thou Long Expected JesusHail, Thou Mother Full Of Grace! Hail, Thou Source of Every Blessing Hail, Undiminished Love, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1986, 1996 Stainer & Bell Ltd Hail! Babe, Of God The Very Son Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary! Hail! Eternal Son, To-day Hail! Eternal Son, To Thee Hail! Ever Hail! Auspicious Morn Hail! Hail! Hail! Hail! Holy Child, Lain In An Oxen Manger Hail! Jesu Christ, Blessed For Aye Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah by Georg Frederic Handel) Hallelujah, Hallelujah – O Rejoice, Ye Christians, Loudly Hampshire Mummers Christmas Carol Hanover Winter Song (Richard Hovey and Frederic Field Bullard, 1898) Happiest Christmas (Words: Myles Rudge, Music: Ted Dicks; Copyright 1970) Happy Bells Are Ringing Happy Birthday Jesus (Estelle Levitt and Lee Pockriss, copyright 1977) Happy Christmas Comes Once More, The – Version 1 (Original Lyrics: Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest); Compare: The Bells of Christmas and The Christmas Chimes So Bold and Blest Happy Christmas Comes Once More, The – Version 2 (Original Lyrics: Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest) Happy Christmas Morning (Alternate Title: Be Merry, Christian Men, And Sing) Happy Holiday (Words and music by Irving Berlin, copyright 1941) Happy Xmas (War is Over) (John Lennon and Yoko Ono, copyright 1971) Hard Candy Christmas (Carol Hall, copyright 1978) Hardrock, Coco and Joe (Also known as The Three Little Dwarves;
Words and Music by Stuart Hamblen, copyright 1950) Hark A Thrilling Voice Is Sounding Hark How The Voice Is Echoed Round Hark The Glad Sound! Hark To The Voices Of The Night Hark Ye Shepherds Hark, Hark What News - Version 1 (Alternate Title: Hark! Hark! What News The Angels Bring) Hark Hark What News The Angels Bring - Version 2 Hark, What Music Fills Creation Hark! A Burst of Heavenly Music Hark! A Gladsome Voice Is Thrilling Hark! A Herald Voice Is Calling Hark! A Mystic Voice Is SoundingHark! All Around The Welkin Rings - Version 1 Hark! All Around The Welkin Rings - Version 2 Hark! An Awful Voice Is Sounding Hark! Hark! The Notes of JoyHark! Hark! The Sweet, Sweet Chiming Hark! Hear Ye Not The Angel SongHark! How The Angels Sing Hark! I Hear, Sweet And ClearHark! On The Midnight Air Hark! Sweet Angel Voices Singing Hark! The Angel Greets The Maiden Hark! The Christmas Songs Are Singing Hark! The Full-Voiced Choir Is Singing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – (Original Lyrics: Hark, how all the welkin rings) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing -- (From William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, 1833) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Finals Time – Humor) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark The Carol Singers Choke - Humor) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark! The Ninja Turtles Sing! – Humor) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark! The Rockefellers Sing – Humor) Hark! The Herald Angels Singing Hark! The Herald Host Is Singing Hark! The Joyful Christmas Greeting Hark! The Merry Christmas Bells Hark! The Music Of The Cherubs Hark! The Skies With Music Sound Hark! The Song of Choirs Angelic Hark! The Voice Eternal Hark! What Celestial Notes Hark! What Celestial Sounds Hark! What Heavenly Sounds Are Floating Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices? Hark! What Mean Those Thrilling Voices Hark! What Sounds Are Sweetly Stealing Hark, From The Midnight Hills Around Hark, Shepherds, How The Angels Sing Hark, The Glad Sound! (Alternate Title: Hark, The Glad Sound! The Savior Comes) Hark, 'Tis The Watchman's Cry (Alternate Title: Wake, Brethren, Wake!) Hark, What A Sound, And Too Divine Have You Not Heard, Not Heard Our Saviour's Love? Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Words by Ralph Blane, Music by Hugh Martin, copyright 1943; Links open at the Songwriters Hall of Fame) He Came Among Us at Christmastide (Alternate Title: Long Ago And Far Away) He Cometh, Father, As He Came From From Old He Has Come, The Christ of God He Is Born, Holy Child Divine (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant) He Is Born, The Divine Christ Child, Version 1 (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant) He Is Born, The Divine Christ Child, Version 2 (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant) He Is Born, The Holy Child (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant; Translation by George K. Evans, copyright 1963) He Is Born, The Heav'nly Child (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant; Translator Edward Bliss Reed)He Is The Reason (Written by Fred Hammond, Kim Rutherford, and David Ivey, copyright 1996, performed by Fred Hammond & RFC; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com) He Shall Be Called (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 1999, used with permission) He Shall Feed His Flock (see notes to Canzone D'l Zampognari) He Smiles Within His Cradle (German: Ein Kindlein in der wiegen) He Was A Shepherd, Too (Copyright, Lynne Perry Christofferson) He Was Here. (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites. He Whom Joyous Shepherds Praised (Translation Charles Winfred Douglas, copyright 1940) He Whom Shepherds Once Came Praising, Translation by Composite, Lutheran Book of Worship, Hymn #68, copyright 1978 Heap On More Wood! The Wind Is Chill Hear The Angels Telling Hear The Glad Tidings Hear Them Bells Hear Ye The Message Hearken, All! What Holy Singing Hearts At Christmas Time Were Jolly Heat Miser Song, The (From the Rankin-Bass Television Production "The Year Without Santa Claus", copyright 1974) The Heavens Bend To Kiss The Earth Heaven's Message Heavenly Child in Stature Grows, TheHeavenly Host Heavenly Sound (First Line: Behold, a lucid light appears) Heavenly Word Proceeding Forth, The Heirlooms (Words and Music by Bob Farrell, Brown Bannister, and Amy Grant, copyright 1983; From A Christmas Album, Amy Grant; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant) Help Us O Lord Behold We Enter Her Baby, Newly Breathing, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1989 Stainer & Bell Ltd Her Virgin Eyes Saw God Incarnate Born (Alternate Title: Herald, Sound The Note Of Judgment; Lyrics by Moir A. J. Waters, copyright) Here Betwixt Ass And Oxen Mild (Notes Only; Translation Charles Winfred Douglas, said to be copyright 1940, however, there is no record at the U.S. Government Copyright Office) Here Comes Holly (Husk; 1868), compare: Her Commys Holly, That Is So Gent (Wright, 1847) Here Comes Santa Claus (Words and Music by Gene Autry & Oakley Haldeman, copyright 1947) Here Comes Santa Claus (Australian Christmas – Humor) Here Is Joy For Every Age Here Is the Centre (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1991; link opens at David Lee's Service Music) Here We Come A-Caroling (The Wassail Song) Here We Come A-Wassailing (The Wassail Song) Here We Come A-Whistling (through the fields so green) Here We Go Up To Bethlehem, Sydney Carter (1915-2004) © 1965 Stainer & Bell Ltd. Here, Shepherds, Let’s Assemble Herod That Was Both Wild and Wode Herode Yt Was Both Wylde And Wode (Middle English) Herrick's Ode (Alternate Title: In Numbers, And But These Few) Hey, Hey, Ho (Words and Music: Ed Chenette, 1937, copyright) Hey! Ho! Nobody Home High Let Us Swell Our Tuneful Notes – Version 1 (Philip Doddridge) High Let Us Swell Our Tuneful Notes – Version 2,
Alternate Title: High O'er The Lonely Hills (Notes Only; Jan Struther (1901-1953), copyright 1931) High Word Of God, Who Once Didst Come Hills of the North, Rejoice Him I Have So Long Desired Ho! Merry Herdmen Ho! Steward, Bid My Servants Holiday Season, The (Words and Music by Kay Thompson, copyright 1955; link opens at new site.) Hob & Colin, Yule Is Come Holidaze (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes) Holly And Ivy (Made A Great Party; Husk, 1868); Compare: Holvyr And Heyvy Made A Gret Party (Wright, 1847) Holly and the Ivy, The Holly And The Ivy, The, Emily Chisholm (1910-1991) © 1972 Stainer & Bell Ltd. Holy Child (Copyright Timothy Dudley-Smith) Holy Fire of Jesus' Spirit (Words by Vincent William Uher III Copyright © 1999,
link to Rev. Uher's Home Page is broken.) The Holy Innocents To-day Holy maiden, blessed thou be (Singe we, singe we) Holy Night Peaceful Night - Jane Montgomery Campbell Holy Night, Peaceful Night - Version 2 Holy Night! Peaceful Night! - Version 3 Holy Night! Peaceful Night! - A. P. Howard Holy Son Of God Most High, The Holy Was That Night So Fair Holy Well, The (Alternate Title: As It Fell Out One May Morning) Home for the Holidays (Words by Al Stillman; Music by Robert Allen, copyright 1954) Home On Christmas Day (Written by Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman, William Wittman, copyright 1998; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site) Homeless (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites. Hominum Laudes (Alternate Title: Christ, Hath Christ's Mother Borne") Hosanna to Christ Hosanna To The Living Lord Hosanna! Raise the Pealing Hymn The House Of Christmas (First line: There fared a mother driven forth) How Beauteous Are Their Feet How Blest Were They On Bethlehem's Plain How Blest With More Than Woman's BlissHow Bright Appears the Morning Star (German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, and the four following translations) How Brightly Beams the Morning Star How Brightly Dawns The Morning Star How Brightly Shines the Morning Star How Fair The Morning Star Doth Shine (Keyte and Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1992) How Far From Home How Far Is It To Bethlehem (Alternate Title: Children's Song Of The Nativity) How Glad I Am Each Christmas Eve (Alternate Titles: I Am So Glad Each Christmas Eve and I Am So Happy Each Christmas Eve; Norwegian: Jeg Er Saa Glad Hyer Julekveld) How Good, Lord, To Be Here How Great Our Joy (While By The Sheep) How Long, The Prophets Cried, How Long, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1989 Stainer & Bell Ltd.How Lovely Now The Morning Star (Cox; German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, and the two following) How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (H. Harbaugh) How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Cox) How Many Credit Cards Must One Man Own (Humor)How Precious Is The Story How Sang The Heavenly Army How Shall I Meet Thee? How My Heart (Compare: O How Shall I Receive Thee? and O Lord, How Shall I Meet You) How Shall I Sing That Majesty How Silent Waits the Listening Earth (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1995; link opens at David Lee's Service Music) How Sweet The Angels' Song How Vain the Cruel Herod's Fear Huron Carol, The (Twas in the Moon of Winter Time) Husbande of Mary, The (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter) Husbandman and Servingman Hush! My Dear, Lie Still and Slumber Hush, All Ye Sounds of War Hush, Hush, Hush Hush, My Babe Hymn For Christmas Day - Taylor (First Line: "Where is this blessed Babe?") The Hymn For Conquering Martyrs RaiseHymn For New Year [First Line: "Great God, we sing that mighty hand"] Hymn to the Holy Family (Words by Vincent William Uher III, Copyright 1998,
link to Rev. Uher's Home Page is broken.) Hymn To Jesus (Words: Vincent William Uher III, Copyright 2002) Hymn To The Virgin
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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)
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