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Other Christmas, Christian and Entertainment Sites
Hymns, Other Music, and Musical Instruments
Free MP3s
Decorations
Cards and E-cards
Gifts and Food
101 SantaClaus.com. Santa Claus Greetings, Santa Claus Ecards, Free Christmas Greetings From 101Santa-Claus.Com
A Vintage Christmas. Cool stuff here, including a Christmas resolution tree and two pages of antique cards! Also, send a note to Santa.
All About Christmas. The fine art of surviving Christmas is easy! Plan a great holiday party. Pick the perfect Christmas tree. Give perfect gifts. Save time and money. Actually enjoy the holidays this year! All About Christmas will show you the way.
Audrey's Christmas Page, featuring Christmas music, coloring pages, crafts, skits and plays, worksheets and recipes. A great resource during the Christmas break for moms, dads and others caring for kids!
Bad Dog Blues: Christmas. Great description of a musical area that I know nothing of: Christmas Blues Songs.
Baker, Christopher R. Online Christmas Songbook. Good source, with excellent links. Glad to see this excellent resource back on line (January 16, 2005)
Bramley, Rev. Henry Ramsden and Sir John Stainer, eds., Christmas Carols New and Old (London: Novello Ewer & Co., ca. 1871). A scanned copy can be found at Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Carols and Hymns of the Season. Christmas carols, plus the Christmas poetry of Archdeacon Harold Macdonald, together with other resources from The Highland Shepherd.
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, a site that features information and activities relating to A Christmas Carol. Visitors can learn about the story, send holiday cards, play games and even ask Scrooge a yes or no question.
ChoralNet. The Internet Center For Choral Music. Recommended!
Chris Hill’s Christmas Carols and Songs A recommended site, one of the largest on the Internet. Chris' site contains many carols that you will not find here. Also check out her A Christmastime Celebration site, plus her main site, Home and Holidays.
The Christmas Archives contains a large amount of Christmas-related information.
Christmas Carol Guide. A Christmas carols site which has lyrics, ring tones and some desktop wallpaper. Check it out.
Christmas Carols and Christmas Songs -- plus associated sites featuring recipes, quotations and jokes.
Christmas Carols for Rabid Fans, football fans should enjoy this site (if their teams are Green Bay, Denver, Chicago, or Pittsburgh).
Christmas Carols in Esperanto:
Gene Keyes: "Yuletide Carols / Jula Karolaro." Just three, so far, but more are coming, plus a new translation of Cantique de Noël (or Minuit, Chrétiens; O Holy Night).
Leland Bryant Ross: "Online Christmas Carols In Esperanto." 125 Carols on this site.
Clancy, Ronald M. and William E. Studwell. The Christmas Classics series promises to be an excellent series.
Best-Loved Christmas Carols
(Christmas Classics, Ltd., 2000)
American Christmas Classics
Children's Christmas Classics
Newly Edition:
Best-Loved Christmas Carols
by Ronald M. Clancy
A new edition from Sterling, released October 2006.A three-minute movie about this series can be seen at http://www.impactmovie.com/christmasclassics
Accessed November 14, 2006.
Christmas Humor, including carols, poems, stories and other resources.
Christmas Jokes.co.uk Take a care here; some readers may find some content objectionable, although there is also other good stuff.
Christmas Magazine. Great resource for Christmas, including entertaining, boutique, magazine, spirit, decorating and e-cards. Both in English and German.
Christmas Music Box A good source for non-English carols (plus English translations)
Christmas Music Lovers. Terrific little site; well organized. Worth the time to visit.
Comedy Bytes! Christmas Funnies An assortment of Christmas humor.
Egan, Bill. Bill Egan's CHRISTMAS WORLD, Great place to visit, especially for International Christmas customs, as well as links to his and others' "Silent Night" sites, including Silent Night Museum and Silent Night -- The Original Sheet Music. Recommended.
Free Christmas Cards Online Free Christmas e-greetings for all your holiday card needs.
Free Christmas Carol Sheet Music. Free sheet music for Christmas Carols in PDF (Acrobat) format, including 4-part (SATB) settings and lead sheets, plus lyrics and MIDI files. All of it free! Excellent!
Garden, John and Aylwen, Earthly Delights: Xmas Carols A serious look at the dance of caroling. Recommended.
Gutteridge, Chris, The Waits Website. A wealth of information concerning these English musicians. Excellent.
Homes and Holidays Family and Fun. Chris Hill's highly regarded, family-friendly site, including "My Holiday Place." Hundreds of Christmas stories, poems and Carols. On the web since 1996. Recommended.
International Lyrics Playground. Excellent source for carols, with over 460 offerings. Recommended.
J's Magic Free Christmas Graphics Galleries. Numerous free graphics, animations, poetry, and Christmas stories.
KCCU Radio's Christmas Carols. Two pages of carols, plus other great content, including streaming audio.
La Christmas. A Valuable Christmas Directory and Information Resource.
The Laffatorium Christmas humor, including carols.
"Messiah" Page from the Antipas, includes an appreciation and explanation of "Messiah" together with lyrics and MIDI files. Excellent resource.
Make Merry at My Merry Christmas
Mistletunes. "The ho-ho-home of a rock 'n roll Christmas." Includes Reggae, Soul/R&B, Rap, Blues, Punk, Surfin' Xmas, Topical, Novelties and 'Eras."
Molloy, Andrew, Santa's Net -- plus traditions and recipes. Check out whether you are on the "Good or Bad" list.
The Music Shoppe Includes original compositions and MP3 files of Christmas arrangements.
Rivers, Bob. Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes Website. Click on The Vault to hear the songs and see many of the lyrics.
Santa Claus FUN, Phone Calls, Letters and Games!! Personalized LIVE calls from Santa (conversation recorded on CD), letters from Santa (that smell like cookies!), plus tons more cool Santa fun for 2004 - even a Reindeer Cam!!!!!
Santa Land. Taking you back to an era of Holiday Traditions we remember as Children. Send a letter to Santa, read holiday stories, Find Christmas carols, lyrics, and arts and crafts. Find Christmas recipes and care for that holiday plant Santa gave you. Track Santa on Christmas Eve.
Santa Search offers over 1000 music, songs, and lyrics -- plus letters to Santa, Christmas e-cards, poems and more!
Santa’s Favourites: Carols and Songs Plus other Christmas resources.
Santa's Postbag. Visit this fun site to write to Santa, Christmas craft projects, decorations you can make, recipes, gifts to make, articles, music, quizzes, puzzles, history and much more.
Smith, Joshua, Christmas-Carols.net A number of carols, including some not found on this site.
Suguiyama Kohji, MIDI Files of Christmas Carols, especially valuable for Korean and Japanese language versions of carols, plus the MIDI files.
Sweatshop Christmas Carols by "MSN", 1998
The Wassail Page!!!! The Web's Wassail Epicenter!!, a source for many wassail songs you'll find here. Also has pages discussing the history of wassail, recipes of wassails, literary text allusions to wassail, and more. Recommended.
Webfitz, Lyrics to Top 101 Christmas Songs of All Time
Withe & Stone. "Pre-Raphaelite" holiday and other music by sung and performed by Jan and John Corbin Goldsberry on period instruments...including free MP3 (full length; no 30-second snippets).
YuleLoveIt. World's Largest Collection of Christmas graphics!
Other Christmas, Christian and Entertainment Sites
Active Bible Church of God & Student Christian University Bible Association, which contains excerpts from Clement A. Miles, Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan (T. Fisher Unwin, 2nd Edition, 1912) on the following topics:
The full work was released in August 2006 by Project Gutenberg: Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan - Clement A. Miles (1912)
ChristmasFinest.com. Christmas links, forums, and newsfeeds. They also feature a Christmas Site of the Week. This site was so honored in September, 2007.
Christmas Freebees, from The Free Site. Programs, screen savers, and lots of other "freebees" related to Christmas.
Christian Lyrics - Your source for all your Christian music lyric needs.
Christian Web Hosting Truepath Christian Web Hosting provides reliable and easy-to-use web hosting in a Christian-centered environment.
Choral Public Domain Library. Fabulous collection of choral music ... in the public domain. If you're looking for choral music, check out this site.
Corporate Entertainment Event Management - A specialist directory for people looking for Corporate Entertainment, Team Building and Event Management in the UK
Cyber Faith - Catholic Resources for People of Faith. Formerly CatholicNet. MIDI files have disappeared as of January 30, 2002.
HappyChristmas.com. Lots of Christmas-related resources at this colorful site.
HotVsNot.Com Web Directory - Comprehensive Database of Web Resources that includes Music
MELOmag Magazine :: Creative Art Form From Around The Globe
Santa: The Real Story - Extensive Santa Claus site; includes a version in French: Père Noël: L'Histoire vraie
Sunny's Celebrations, especially for her Christmas recipes and multi-lingual banners.
All Holiday Treasures. Wide array of Christmas lights, décor and unique gifts.
The Antique Christmas Lights Museum. Marvelous site containing information about the development of electric Christmas lighting in America during the 1900-1950 time period, the years this collector considers to be the Golden Age of electric Christmas lighting.
Artificial Christmas Trees. A huge selection of unlit and prelit Christmas trees and Christmas decorations.
Artificial Christmas Trees. Balsam Hill’s mission is to present the highest quality artificial Christmas trees, wreaths, and garlands to our customers.
Bronners. Home to over 50,000 gifts and trims for all seasons and reasons, Bronners advertises itself as the world's largest Christmas store.
Christmas At The Zoo. Great decorations and a huge selection of stuffed animals. Located in the Pearl district of Portland, Oregon.
Christmas Decorations. SuperWholesaler.com has a large selection of wholesale products for retail stores, school fundraisers, ebay drop shipping, home parties, flea markets, mall kiosks, office parties, weddings and more. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Christmas Decorations Store. Christmas decorations store offers traditional Christmas ornaments, gifts, stars, accessories, wreaths, garland, cards, gold Christmas ornaments and more shopping along with Christmas gifts.
Christmas Ornaments - Online retailer of fine Christmas decorations, ornaments, stockings and Christmas party supplies.
Christmas Tree Farms at Gardens.Com. Find a Christmas Tree Farm in your area at this site, which includes a US map and list of Christmas Tree Farms by state.
Christmas Wishes. Offers information on history, traditions & customs, decorations, gifts, crafts, carols and recipes on Christmas.
Christmas Wreaths and Christmas Centerpieces - Fresh Maine Balsam Fir. Buy Christmas wreaths and Christmas centerpieces online, hand-crafted using fresh Maine balsam fir, shipped directly from the Maine woods to your door.
Commercial Christmas Decorations. A large selection of home and commercial Christmas decorations including giant trees, wreaths, garlands, and figures, outdoor Christmas decorations, and much more.
Holiday Ornaments. Choose from 1,600 personalized holiday ornaments and personalized collectibles.
Holly & Ivy, Ltd. Home & garden decor, collectables, gifts and Christmas year round. Located at 416 S. McLoughlin Blvd., Oregon City, Oregon.
Holy Land Cellular Wallpapers, Backgrounds, and Video Clips - Christian-themed mobile backgrounds, wallpapers, greeting cards and video clips made for your cellular phone.
For Happy Seasons. We offer Christmas decors and displays for the lowest prices. Shop our Christmas online catalog and save 10-35%. Our online store is your one-stop shop for Christmas home decorations.
Nativity Sets. NativitySets.com is a premier online retailer of nativity sets in the world. You’ll find the largest selection of nativity sets at great prices! Cool stuff here! Check it out.
Outdoor Nativity Scene. NativitySceneOutdoor.com offers an outdoor nativity scene with unique artistic design. Built to last with easy assembly and storage. You need to see this nativity set!
Pre Lit Artificial Christmas Tree, Xmas Trees. Christmas tree shop offering artificial Christmas trees.
Schwerman Christmas Tree Plantation. "The Natural Christmas Tree Place." Serving Huntsville, Alabama, and surrounding communities from Lacey's Spring.
Sleigh-Bells of Sherwood. Near my former home in Oregon, Sleigh-Bells has been one of my favorite places to be. Open year-round, with a large assortment of Christmas ornaments, villages, and such, plus Christmas trees and wreaths from their large tree farm.
101 Christmas Carol e-Cards. A bunch of Christmas e-card, plus lyrics to many carols, quotes from "A Christmas Carol," and Christmas links.
123Greetings. Share the joys of this merry season with your friends, family, acquaintances, and loved ones. Send them our warm and wonderful Christmas ecards. All cards are absolutely free.
Christmas Cards. Personalized Christmas Cards - charity Christmas greetings cards online. Serving the UK and Eire.
Christmas Cards Online - We stock a wide range of company Christmas cards at unbeatable prices. Discounts available on all internet orders. Don't delay — order today.
Christmas e-greetings. Spread joy and good cheer and bring smiles to faces ! This collection of free e-cards are just perfect to wish your friends, family and loved ones a very Merry Christmas and fill their hearts with warmth and joy.
Christmas greetings, Christmas cards, Christmas Greeting cards, Christmas ecards from Ecard4all. Christmas is all about togetherness, love, and sharing and giving cakes, gifts. Sent Free e-cards to anyone. Its Free !!!
Christmas-Wishes.com. Christmas Wishes Greetings, Christmas Wishes Ecards, Xmas E-Cards From Christmas-Wishes.Com
Dover Cards. Over 1,200 free e-cards from Dover Books, selected from their collection printed cards.
Ecardica.com. Free greeting cards (This is a link to their Christmas cards page; lots of other free cards, too!)
Free Christmas Cards Online Free Christmas e-greetings for all your holiday card needs.
Free Christmas greeting cards from HiGreetings.com 'Jingle bells jingle, jingle all the way santa claus is coming to town riding on his sleigh'. Yes folks it's that time of the year everything rises in the spirit of the birth of Christ. Send everyone you know our free ecards and make their days all the more merrier.
Free E-Cards Online Christmas Cards. A collection of free e-cards for all occasions. Send beautiful Christmas cards to your family and friends for free!
Free Greeting cards. Merry Christmas, Xmas, Greetings, Cards, Santa, Christmas Greeting Cards.
Fun-Greetings-Jokes.com. Christmas and other e-cards here, plus unique collection of animated and musical free greeting cards, e-cards, fun pages, games, jokes and funny pictures from their main page.
Greetings and Ecards. Merry Christmas ! Share the Christmas spirit, and wish everyone you know. Have Fun on Christmas with Merry Christmas Greeting Cards, Free Xmas e-cards, Christmas Carols, Christmas Greetings
New Year's Greetings. Warm & funny greeting cards, e-cards and cards to connect to your friend, loved one, acquaintance or with someone you haven't been in touch for a while.
Santa Search offers free Christmas e-cards to brighten the holiday season for family and friends. Share the joy of the season!
Charms (Ecosse) Ltd - Christmas Stationery & Personalised Gifts - Specialist UK based suppliers of Corporate and Family Christmas Cards, Social Stationery and Personalised Gifts
Caryn's Christmas Cheer. Gifts and a good deal more. A part of the proceeds support animal rescues. Check it out.
Christmas Gift Baskets From Appreciation Matters. Our Christmas gift baskets are custom made and include festive and delicious treats that are sure to make anyone smile. We can ship our gift baskets to anywhere in the United States, which makes your Christmas shopping easy and convenient.
Christmas Gift Ideas - Christmasgiftscento.com gives ideas for Christmas like gift item, Christmas decorations, trees, cakes, music, poems, online gifts, unique gift items etc.
Christian Gift Shop in Israel - The Jerusalem Gift Shop. Christian Gift Shop located in the heart of Jerusalem - gifts from the Holy Land.
Christmas Costumes. Need a costume for Christmas? From the Magi to Santa, many costumes — religious and secular — can be found at this fun site.
Christmas Gifts. Colorful Christmas gifts' tale, e-cards, more xmas stories, holiday crafts and forum.
Christmas Gifts UK: UK Christmas shopping made easy. 100s of secure online shops.
Christmas Treasures, Inc. - Fine Gifts and Collectibles. Also Home of the World's Tallest Lighted Christmas Tree -- Over 50,000 Lights.
Corporate Christmas Cards. 1st Class Christmas Cards features a large assortment of Christmas and holiday cards especially for corporate use. We have many themes to appeal different audiences, from sedate to humorous. Personalize and preview your holiday cards right on our web site.
Craftbits. Free Christmas Craft advice, Craft Articles and Craft Competitions. "Why buy it when you can make it?"
Do It Gifts - An Excellent Resource For Gifts!
Firejewel.com - Christmas Jewelry Gifts is an online store for light up jewelry crystal gift ideas. All crystal jewelry is made with Swarovski crystals.
Flowers Gifts Shop UK London Online Buy Order Send Flowers Gifts Online. Beautiful fresh Flowers & fine novelty Gifts available Online at discount prices. Free Next Day and Sunday Delivery. Cheap Same Day and Overseas Delivery Services.
UK Gift experience ideas for men & women - Gift Experiences including driving day, pamper spa breaks and flying activity gift vouchers ideas for men & women, special occasions, birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, valentines day and Christmas presents.
HappyChristmas.com – A Unique Gift Shopping site for Christmas and all year round Shopping
Holiday Gifts HQ: categorized resource directory for everything about holiday gifts.
Holiday Party Invitations. Chic and contemporary Christmas and holiday party invitations -- plus other stationary, announcements and invitations.
How To Roast Chestnuts. As in the lyric "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire." As it turns out, you can also roast Chestnuts on a grill or in the oven. I haven't tried this out yet, as I lack a source for the Chestnuts themselves, but will be looking soon!
Pudding.Net Christmas recipes and forum: puddings, desserts, cakes, starters, main course, turkey, sweets, chocolates and gifts, cocktails, juices.
Visit Georgie Shops - A directory of online shops for great Christmas shopping.
Hymns, Other Music, and Musical Instruments
20,000 Volkslieder, Germany and Other Folksongs, and especially the section on Christmas. Recommended. Huge site with emphasis on German songs of many genres.
Ames, Brian M., The Ames Hymn Collection An excellent site with text and MIDI files for more than 350 hymns.
Baptist Hymnals, including 1975 and 1991 editions. From Friendship Baptist Church, Saint Petersburg, Florida. Lots of both MIDI and MP3 files; this site is greatly improved since I first visited it.
Benner, Steve, ed., The Oremus Hymnal The collected hymns from the Episcopal Church, an encyclopedic source of carols and hymns from this religious tradition. Recommended, especially for the Hymnal assets.
BRS Web Radio has this listing and links to Christmas music web casts and broadcasts, some of which webcast or broadcast year round.
Cantores Celestes is one of the few women's chamber choirs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They give an annual Christmas concert, and have released two Christmas CDs (one of which is now out of print, unfortunately).
Christian Classics Ethereal Library A recommended site. Contains Hymnal Collections including
The Baptist Hymnal, 1975
The Episcopal Hymnal, 1916
Great Songs of the Church, 1937, E. L. Jorgenson; 1974, Great Songs Press
Lutheran Hymnal, 1941
Service Book and Hymnal, 1958, Hope Publishing Company
Songs of the Church, 1977
Southern Harmony, 1835
Also check out The Hymnary. CCEL also contains other valuable resources and is a recommended site.
Christian MP3s Reviews and discussions of Christian MP3s and Christian Movies, with links to suppliers.
Christmas Radio Network. Streaming Christmas music 24/7/365! My kind of place.
The Classical Score, an online timeline of music history and hymnology.
Alan Cruise-Johnson and Vincent James, Free Music Score. Christmas and other musical compositions from the very active and talented musical community of New Zealand.
The Cyber Hymnal. Over 3,400 Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations—lyrics, MIDI files, scores, pictures, history & more. Searchable, advanced Autoplay feature, free downloads. Recommended.
Digital Hymnal, The Seventh Day Adventist Church's significant contribution contains lyrics, MIDI files, chords and other resources. Searchable by lyricist or composer.
ELH MIDI Site. MIDI files of hymns from the Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
FFD Music - Your online resource for Music! Plus Christmas Music and Christmas Music Lyrics!
Festival Singers of Wellington. The web site of the acclaimed New Zealand choir, plus their extensive links page, which contains numerous links to choirs in New Zealand, together with many other musical web sites
Buy Guitars online at www.guitar-finder.com - Thousands of guitars for sale with immediate delivery worldwide.
Hervormd Dinteloord (Dutch Reformd Church, Dinteloord). Midi Genevan psalter -- 1556 composed in order J Calvin by Matthias Greither, Maistre Pierre and Louis Bourgeois -- and many other melodies.
Hymn Descants. A descant is a counter melody written above the original melody. Its main purpose is to enhance the original melody without overpowering it. It heightens the effectiveness of the worship experience by adding a sense of climax and joy to the hymn. This excellent site will help you better understand this musical technique, as well as provide numerous examples and links. See also the Hymn Descant's Store at LuLu.com
Hymnsite.com, selections from the United Methodist Hymnal, 1981 and The Standard Psalm Tune Book, 1851.
The Hymnuts, particularly The Hymnal Companion including the Index of Hymn Text Titles, the Index of Hymn Writers (Authors, Composers, Sources), and the Index to Hymn Tunes. Recommended.
Jordan, Richard, Lutheran Hymnal Online. No text or music were included from this site, which has posted very strong copyright warnings! Contains six Lutheran hymnals, plus other material. For information that you can copy, see The Lutheran Hymnal (see below).
K-Lite and K-103: Christmas music 24-7 from these two Portland, OR, radio stations (late November through Christmas).
Lutheran Hymnal, The Contains the text of public domain hymns from this hymnal. Authorized by the Synods Constituting The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1941. Placed in the Public Domain by Project Wittenberg, which also contains hymns and other resources. Both are recommended sites, especially for continuation of the rich German and Scandinavian chorale traditions. Texts of hymns, but no MIDI or other sound files (which are widely available).
Merrifield, Ralph, New Hope Music. Home to Christmas and other Christian hymns and carols, including MIDI files and PDF scores. Excellent!
Sims, Al, Jr., God's Hymns In MIDI Format. All MIDIs, no text. An excellent site.
Harrock Hall Music. On June 1, 2003, Cecil Rigby published Christian Hymn Texts From The Public Domain, a significant collection of over 650 public domain hymns; it is available from Handlo Music. Mr. Rigby has also announced a new service of Harrock Hall Music which will allow an excellent way for composers to publish new compositions and arrangements of sacred choir and instrumental music, while allowing those composers and arrangers to pursue additional publishing options.
Hymn Society of the United States and Canada. Excellent source for hymnals, hymnology, companions, historical reprints, and more.
The Hymn Tune Index, a database contains all hymn tunes printed anywhere in the world with English-language texts up to 1820, and their publication history up to that date.
Music For The Church Of God. Excellent site, especially for those interested in Psalters.
Nicholas Wynne - Pianist & Composer. Numerous excellent compositions and arrangements can be found on this site, especially (but hardly limited to) Hymns and Carols, Chorale-Masses, and Chorale-General. But don't limit yourself to these three; this is a site worth spending an evening with.
Radio, Music - Internet Radio Station & free music online guide RadioTower makes it easy to listen to radio and music from around the world. One click access to thousands of Internet radio stations playing free music online. Note: this is fee-based software. I am not a subscriber.
RealLyrics. Lyrics of all genre & ages, including many Christmas lyrics.
Royal School of Church Music, supporting a world-wide network of 9,000 churches, schools and individuals. Their Carols Collections page has a long list of high-quality collections and publications.
QSP Music - Music Drives Our World!
Sunhawk.com features over 40,000 sheet music titles including a huge selection of Christmas works for a wide variety of ensembles and voicings.
Twelve Month Music. A site which features an innovative method for learning about music, and for learning to play music. This method is based on the guitar and on visualinear tablature, a revolutionary new music notational system.
Free MP3s
Christmas Music (MP3s and sheet music) at Sally DeFord Music.
Garritan Community Christmas. Three CDs worth of free MP3 downloads. There is also a terrific Nutcracker page. Requires Macromedia Shockwave. Link opens in a new window at Adobe.com.
Live Christmas Music and Christmas Audio at Internet Archive.
MIDI files, MP3s and PDF scores of several new Christmas carols by Ralph Merrifield at New Hope Music
O Blessed Night. This is a live recording of a performance by the Decatur Civic Chorus, presented December 12, 2004 at the First Baptist Church of Decatur in Decatur, Georgia.
United States Air Force Band - Holiday Music: Page 1 and Page 2
A full listing of Air Force Winter Holidays Music can be found at Air Force Winter Holidays Music.
The US Navy Band: Christmas and other music.
Recordings / Sounds Online
For additional sources, see the Bibliography
This page was last updated on 04/09/08.
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Indices of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas:
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Full
Index
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Table of
Contents
Non-English Carols and Hymns
Bibliography
Includes links to other sites and to Amazon.com for
printed collections, histories, etc.
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
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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