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Category Archives: Christmas carol countdown
Christmas Carol Countdown: December 12, 13: The Holly and the Ivy; The Twelve Days of Christmas
The Holly and the Ivy “The Holly and the Ivy” is an English traditional Christmas carol. “Holly and ivy have been the mainstay of Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when they are … Continue reading
Christmas Carol Countdown: December 8-11 (whoops): Carol of the Bells; Come Buy Ny Nice, Fresh Ivy; Do You Hear What I Hear?; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen take 2
Err, 4 days… time to start copying. Carol of the Bells’ The song is based on a traditional folk chant. The original traditional Ukrainian text used a device, known as hemiola, in the rhythm (alternating the accents within each measure … Continue reading
Christmas Carol Countdown: December 7: Away In a Manger
The song was first published with two verses in an Evangelical Lutheran Sunday School collection, Little Children’s Book for Schools and Families (1885), edited by James R. Murray (1841-1905), where it simply bore the title “Away in a Manger” and … Continue reading
Christmas carol countdown: December 5… and 6: Angels We Have Heard On High, And Angels From the Realms Of Glory
Yeah yeah I missed a day. So sue me. These two are similar in many ways. For one they are both about angels. For two they commonly share the same tune. Angels we have heard on high: This is a … Continue reading
Christmas carol countdown: December 4: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
“Like so many early Christmas songs, this carol was written as a direct reaction to the music of the fifteenth century church,” writes Ace Collins, in Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas. However, in the as-yet earliest known publication … Continue reading
Christmas carol countdown: December 3: We Three Kings
We Three Kings is a Christmas carol written by the Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr., who wrote both the lyrics and the music. It is suggested to have been written in 1857 but did not appear in print until his … Continue reading
Christmas carol countdown: December 2: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
This carol… is just another carol. I really have no funny joke here. I need to work on that. “Edmund [Hamilton] Sears composed the five-stanza poem in 1849. It first appeared on December 29, 1849 in the Christian Register in … Continue reading