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Traditionally sung in a roof-raising chorus at the end of carol services and concerts, O Come All Ye Faithful invites us to join and sing with the ‘citizens of heaven above’. Scrooged (1988). Una versión comedia y la adaptación menos fiel por lejos, y aun así ¡mi favorita personal! Murray es magníficamente hilarante de principio a fin. Karen Allen también actúa una completamente adorable Claire (un flechazo por un tiempo). Excesivamente fácil de ver, graciosa, romántica, y muy inspiradora. Poderosamente transmite ese asquerosamente dulce sentimiento de Navidad, incluso para un Grinch como yo. Altamente recomendable para cualquier audiencia. An American carol with a British tune. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear was written a decade before the American civil war by Unitarian minister Edmund Hamilton Sears. Although a tune was written a year later by Richard Storrs Willis to accompany it, the melody which has become famous in Europe was written by Arthur Sullivan - of Gilbert and Sullivan fame!
Whilst it is a book whose unhurried and detailed descriptions of Christmas are the epitome of the season (“ apoplectic opulence”), it is a book of great contrasts: humbug/festivities, hot/cold, company/solitude, poverty/wealth, worthy poor/wastrels, past/future etc. As Scrooge explores what each of the ghosts has to show him, I loved how the ghosts use Scrooge’s own words against him. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint." In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Christmas sequence (or prose) was introduced in Northern European monasteries, developing under Bernard of Clairvaux into a sequence of rhymed stanzas. In the 12th century the Parisian monk Adam of Saint Victor began to derive music from popular songs, introducing something closer to the traditional Christmas carol.
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Interestingly, some carols throughout history seem to celebrate a period outside the Christmas season. ‘Coventry Carol’, for example, is believed to have originated from Medieval Coventry Mystery Plays, traditionally performed in the middle of the summer. It is our reality as humans that most of our lives exist in what we can remember. After all, we have control only of the instant second, and already, that second is passing.
A permanent fixture in the traditional services of Lessons And Carols, this most famous of carols is set to a tune by Felix Mendelssohn. It began with a much more archaic name; ‘Hark How All The Welkin Rings’, (the welkin being an old-fashioned term for the heavens). But George Whitefield, a colleague of the lyricist Charles Wesley, thought that no-one would understand the meaning, and so he compiled his own hymnal and changed the words himself! Cutolo, Cesare; Grosse, F (12 March 1866). The Victorian Christmas waltz. Melbourne: Ebenezer and David Syme – via Trove. King, Henry John; Commission, Australian Broadcasting; Australia, Symphony (12 March 1899). While all things were in quiet silence: anthem for Christmas. [London]: Novello and Company – via Trove. The Adoration of the shepherds, for example the Czech carol "Nesem vám noviny" (translated into English as "Come, All Ye Shepherds") Johnson, James; Degotardi, Johann Nepomuk (12 March 1862). The first hymn for Christmas-Day: Hich let us swell our tuneful notes. Sydney: W.J. Johnson & Co – via Trove.In addition to being hard of heart, Scrooge is a man with a deliberate philosophy of self-exoneration. It consists of two principles: 1) taxpayers fund the poor houses and prisons, thereby discharging in full their obligation to all of their fellow human beings, and 2) death by starvation, although it may seem regrettable, is actually a positive good as proven by science (because Malthus!), and relieves the rest of us of the burden of a surplus population. This philosophy is the shield that protects Scrooge from feeling the pains of sympathy and compassion. Dating from the 18th century, "Les Anges dans nos Campagnes" (known as "Angels We Have Heard On High" in English) is another famous French carol. The Ukrainian carol most known to the Western World is the " Carol of the Bells", with English lyrics by the American composer of Ukrainian descent Peter J. Wilhousky, composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych as " Shchedryk", and premiered in December 1916 by a choral group made up of students at Kyiv University. Although it is a Christmas carol in Wilhousky's English lyrics, in original Ukrainian lyrics it is a Generous Eve carol ( shchedrivka [ uk], Ukrainian: щедрівка), having nothing with Christianity. In 1703, another collection, Chants des Noëls Anciens et Modernes, was printed by Christophe Ballard (1641–1715), in Paris.
The words for this well-known American carol are adapted from Psalm 98 and sections of the book of Genesis. By the end of the 20th century it was the most published carol in North America. There have been several tunes associated with the words over time, but the most famous is generally attributed to GF Handel; in fact you can hear very similar fragments of this melody in Messiah!
Many Christmas traditions are relatively recent such as Santa Claus and reindeer and bear no relation to Christmas carols. We have reflected this in the unusual and beautiful Victorian Angel Pictures we have included for your pleasure and enjoyment. Today Christmas songs and carols are also fast becoming a tradition. This gentle lullaby was originally known as ‘Luther’s Cradle Song’ although it later transpired that it was not the work of the famous German theologian Martin Luther at all, and was in fact wholly American in origin. The words have two different musical settings, both of which are still performed today. In addition, some carols describe Christmas-related events of a religious nature, but not directly related to the birth of Jesus. For example: Christmas carols are very popular in Poland, where they have a long history, the oldest dating to the 15th century or earlier. [43] There is a tradition of singing Christmas carols until 2 February which is celebrated by western Christians as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. [ citation needed] Romania [ edit ]
This carol also began life as a poem, written in 1849 by Edmund Hamilton Sears, a Unitarian parish minister and author. The music was composd by American musician Richard Storrs Willis in 1850. O Little Town of Bethlehem The Twelve Days of Christmas is different from other Christmas carols, because it doesn't seem to have a religious theme and it doesn't deal with the Nativity. Origin His name always makes me laugh. But to READ the name in print is almost more fizzy fun than to merely hear it said. Plumpton, Alfred; Hemans Mrs (12 March 1890). Oh, lovely voices of the sky: hymn for Christmas. [Melbourne: David Syme & Co.] – via Trove.In accordance with a medieval tradition, the Christmas Peace is declared every year on Christmas Eve in Porvoo, Finland, with a local band and male choir performing Christmas carols. [40] France [ edit ]
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