It's Christmas once more » Christmas once more http://christmasoncemore.com Christmas cards, gifts and ideas without stress Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:59:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 It’s no longer Christmas once more http://christmasoncemore.com/2010/01/02/no-longer-christmas-once-more/ http://christmasoncemore.com/2010/01/02/no-longer-christmas-once-more/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:14:37 +0000 happyspirit http://christmasoncemore.com/?p=392 Well, It’s no longer Christmas once more – until Christmas 2010. Then it will be Christmas once again.

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Angels from the Realms of Glory – I really like this one and the tune.

A Boy Is Born in Bethlehem Go here for Christmas Carol DVDs

A Christmas Carol

As with Gladness Men of Old

Away in a Manger   A classic

Angels we have heard on high

A Babe is born in Bethlehem

Ben Jonson’s Carol

Baby of Bethlehem

Beautiful Bethlehem bells

Birthday of a King

Bright and joyful is the morn

Bright was the guiding star

Christians Awake salute the Happy Morn

Come, all ye Shepherds -  Another classic from the list of christmas carols

Come, Ye Lofty

Coventry Carol

Cradled in a Manger, meanly

Child in the manger

Christmas day joyous

Christians, lo, the star appeareth

Come rejoicing, Praises voicing

Two more classics directly below

Deck the Halls

Ding Dong Merrily on High

Day, a day of glory

Dear Little Stranger

Dost thou in a manger lie?

Earth Today Rejoices

Earth has many a noble city

Eternal Glory of the Sky

From Heaven High, O Angels, Come

From Highest Heaven I Come To Tell

From the Eastern Mountains

Friendly Beasts

From East to West

From lands that see the sun arise

Gentle Mary Laid Her Child

Give Heed My Heart

Glory be to God on High

Go tell it to the Mountain

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Good Christian Men Rejoice

Ah the good old king – can’t miss this from our list of christmas carols

Good King Wenceslas

Gather round the Christmas tree

Gentle Mary laid her child

Glad Tidings

Glorious Yuletide

Now i remeber hark the herald from my choir days – really like it.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

When I was 7 the whole class had to practice Holly and ivy and sing it to the school – it is quite a difficlut one to sing actually but has to be included in our list of christmas carols.

Holly and the Ivy

I Saw Three Ships

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

In a manger, laid so lowly

In a lowly manger sleeping

It’s amazing how the pace of bleak midwinter differs from some of the other  more uplifting carols.

In the bleak midwinter

Infant holy, infant lowly

Joy to the World

Lo! He comes with Clouds Descending

Love Came Down at Christmas

Little Child is born tonight

Merry, Merry Christmas bells

No room in the inn

O Christmas Tree carol

Ah- the perennial Faithful – always triumphant and joyful!

O Come All Ye Faithful

O Come O Come Emmanuel

O Holy Night

O Little Town of Bethlehem  – always liked this one

O Remember Adams fall

Once in Royal Davids City – and this

O Christmas night

O Thou Joyful, O Thou Wonderful

O Thou who by a star didst guide

On Judah’s plains as shepherds sat

Our Day of Joy is here again

Precious Child, so sweetly sleeping

Rejoice, Rejoice, this happy morn

Ring out the Bells for Christmas

Rise up, shepherd, and follow

Probably one of the most sung in our list of christmas carols.

Silent Night

Shepherds! Shake off your drowsy sleep

Shout the Glad Tidings

Sing, O Sing, this blessed morn

Star in the East

Another classic – my mum went to school run by nuns ans she said they were so fed up with all hymns etc they used to sing ‘ Bloody hell’ instead!

The First Noel

The Gloucestershire Wassail

The Wassail Song

To us a Child of Royal Birth

Unto Us A Boy Is Born

We three kings- another one I had to learn and sing for the school nativity – I was one of the kings!

We Three Kings of Orient are

Now who hasn’t heard of While shepherds washed their socks at night!

While Shepherds Watched

Wexford Carol

When Christ was born in Bethlehem

When from the East the Wise Men came

When Wise Men came seeking

Who is He in yonder stall?

Wise may bring their learning

Wonder of the Story

Ah Well – there’s a list of christmas carols to be getting on with – you can find the lyrics all over the web – Have a great christmas sing-a-long.

Share/Save]]> http://christmasoncemore.com/2009/12/19/list-of-christmas-carols/feed/ 0 Christmas Carol DVD http://christmasoncemore.com/2009/12/19/carol-dvd/ http://christmasoncemore.com/2009/12/19/carol-dvd/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:25:03 +0000 happyspirit http://christmasoncemore.com/?p=368 Do you know what reminds us that Christmas is on its way? We begin to hear Christmas Carols. Regularly rendered from a Christmas carol DVD or Christmas carol CDs. New Christmas compositions and the golden oldies  begin to be audible everywhere we go. Go here for a selection of Christmas Carol DVDs.

Now back in the bygone times, there was not a Christmas carol dvd during Christmas time.  . Christmas Carols just became recognized as such in the sixteenth century. They developed from christmas hymns and were distributed by the church who could afford to record the music down – the forerunner to the Christmas carol DVD of nowadays.

Carols were ordinary ballads which just later became tailored and linked to Christmas, and accessible now on the Christmas carol DVD and Christmas CDs. Groups of singers are best for performing carols, and some have produced their own Christmas carol DVD. Two of the most renowned ballads were the Middle English carols entitled “Angels” and “Personent Ho Die”. Yet, these songs lost recognition after the Reformation. It was though revived by Arthur Sullivan and made the Christmas song “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear” accepted.

In England, Poland and Bulgaria they perform the practice of “wassailing”, where a vocal collection hops from cottage to cottage singing and gets   money, pies, or a drink. The cash collected throughout this activity is regularly given to charitable trust.

In Australia, Christmas carols by candlelight astound the city in the evening. Christmas melodies were sung by opera divas in Melbourne and are reasonably trendy as is the carol dvd they release.

These days, Christmas carols have turned mainly non-secular, that is they are no longer just performed in churches and cathedrals. fashionable singers and groups now sing them and create their own christmas carol DVD and christmas carol CDs. As defined, carols mean a “pleasant spiritual song commemorating the nativity of Jesus Christ”.

The book entitled “A Christmas Carol” expressing the genuine meaning of Christmas was popularized by Dickens and can never be forgotten. A Christian ideal, Scrooge is a precise example showing what Christmas truly should be about, although you have to wait to the end for his enlightenment.

In the new age scenario though, it seem uncommon to note that Christmas carols are still widely celebrated. This is mainly because, while the nature of the carols depicts religiosity, its lyrics on the other hand were fashioned into excellent arrangement making Christmas carols more universal and fashionable in nature.
Christmas carols today are part of our custom. The melodies and lyrics remind us that we are God’s blessed children.

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