• Carols for Choirs is a collection of choral scores, predominantly of Christmas carols and hymns, first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press. It...
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    John Rutter (section Carols)
    carol "Look at the world" Three Carols from Carols for Choirs 4 for SS and SSA unaccompanied Five Childhood Lyrics Eight Christmas Carols, Set 1 for mixed...
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  • The Oxford Book of Carols is a collection of vocal scores of Christmas carols and carols of other seasons. It was first published in 1928 by Oxford University...
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    The term noel has sometimes been used, especially for carols of French origin. Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category...
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  • of caroling outside the liturgy. Composers such as William Byrd composed motet-like works for Christmas that they termed carols; and folk-carols continued...
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  • The New Oxford Book of Carols is a collection of vocal scores of Christmas carols. It was first published in 1992 by Oxford University Press (OUP) and...
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  • "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem" or "Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem" is an English Easter hymn by Robert Campbell. It is a 19th-century translation of the...
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    symphony orchestra. Vision Australia's Carols by Candlelight is the oldest Carols by Candlelight event in Australia. Carols by Candlelight, held in Melbourne...
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    David Willcocks (category People educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School)
    descants and carol arrangements he wrote for the annual service of Nine Lessons and Carols were published in the series of books Carols for Choirs which he...
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    Reginald; Willcocks, David, eds. (24 August 1961). Carols for Choirs 1 : Fifty Christmas Carols. OUP. ISBN 9780193532229. Piae Cantiones - A Finnish...
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  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas (category Christmas carols)
    Merry Christmas". It was subsequently republished in the collection Carols for Choirs (1961), and remains widely performed. The popular version begins as...
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  • Ding Dong Merrily on High (category Christmas carols)
    text in The Cambridge Carol Book. More recently, Sir David Willcocks made an arrangement for the second book of Carols for Choirs. Ding Dong! merrily on...
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  • manor in Suffolk and 30 acres (12 hectares) of land in return for his services as a jester for King Henry II. Each year he was obliged to perform "Unum saltum...
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    Christmas Carols, With the Tunes to Which They Were Formerly Sung in the West of England and William Sandys's 1833 collection Christmas Carols, Ancient...
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    In dulci jubilo (category Christmas carols in German)
    (1961), Carols for Choirs 1, Oxford University Press David Willcocks; John Rutter (1980), Carols for Choirs 4, Oxford University Press Carols for Choirs 1 –...
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  • English-speaking world in an arrangement published in the second volume of Carols for Choirs edited by David Willcocks and John Rutter, where it is given the title...
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    Nine Lessons and Carols, also known as the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, is a service of Christian worship...
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    dessert canon". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 19, 2023. Anderson, Carol; Mallinson, Katharine (2004). Lunch with Lady Eaton: Inside the Dining Rooms...
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    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (category Christmas carols)
    book of the Carols for Choirs series. For many years it has served as the recessional hymn of the annual service of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College...
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    traditionally prepared by the entire family, and often serves as an occasion for social interactions such as after wedding receptions where the families of...
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    churches and houses, and the greeting of Christmas morning by hymns and carols blown by trumpets and trombones from church towers. "The Season of Advent:...
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    new clothes for Christmas, or eat their "Christmas bit" (an extra portion of food given to residents of a farm). Jón gave no source for either story...
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    as well as published collections such as Oxford Book of Carols (1928) and Carols for Choirs. Following the early music revival of the mid-20th century...
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    Winter's Tale as a precursor to the genre. Charles Dickens' 1843 A Christmas Carol is an early example of the genre in fiction, which according to the British...
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  • Vaughan Williams had included the carol in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols, first performed at the 1912 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral. Erik...
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  • number seven. This celebration commemorates the wait, the Vigilia di Natale, for the midnight birth of the baby Jesus. The long tradition of eating seafood...
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  • States court Carols for Choirs, a British collection of Christmas carol music books Catechism for Filipino Catholics, Roman Catholic catechism for Filipinos...
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    as carols were originally communal folk songs sung during celebrations such as "harvest tide" as well as Christmas. It was only later that carols began...
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    sequence of events. A tenor soloist appears as Saint Nicolas, with a mixed choir, boys singers, strings, piano duet, organ and percussion. Saints portal...
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    Advent wreaths. Advent wreath FAQ at the Lutheran Missouri Synod web site Advent hymns including two examples of Advent Wreath carols Advent Bible Themes...
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