edited by DEARMER, Percy, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, R., and SHAW, Martin
Music and texts of 201 carols for the Christmas season (many in more than one setting), each with copious notes on Historical background and performance. An extensive general introduction gives an overview of the history of the carol, and there are a number of appendices dealing with specific areas of the repertory.
The book's approach is an attempt to rediscover the native vitality of material that has sometimes been debased and sentimentalized, by means of `authentic' period settings and a concern for historically informed performance.
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PART 1: COMPOSED CAROLS
THE MIDDLE AGES
1. Verbum Supernum Prodiens/High Word of God Eternal Light
2. Veni Redemptor Gencium/Come Thou Redeemer of the Earth
3. Christe Redemptor Omnium/O Christ the Father's Only Son
4. A Solis Ortus Cardine/From Lands that See the Sun Arise
5. Letabundus/Come Rejoicing
6. Festa Dies Agitur
7. Dieus Soit En Cheste Maison
8. Angelus ad Virginem/Gabriel fram Heven King
9. Procedenti Puero-Eya! Noveus Annus Est/Verbum Caro Factum Est-Eya!
10. Ad Cantus Leticie
11. Laudemus Cum Armonia
12. Verbum Caro Factum Est
13. Dies Est Leticie
14. Verbum Car Factum Est: In Hoc Anni Circulo
15. Verbum Patris Umanatur
16. Veni Veni Emanuel/O Come O Come Emmanuel
17. Qui Creavit Celum/He Who Made the Earth so Fair (Song of the Nuns of Chester)
18. Dies Est Laeticiae/Earth With Joy This Day Doth Ring
19. Corde Natus Ex Parentis/Of the Father's Heart Begotten
20. Personent hodie/On this day earth shall ring ; Epiphany
21. Puer nobis nascitur/Unto us is born a Son
22. Omnis mundus iucundetur
ENGLISH CAROLS 1400-1700
1. Lullay, lullay: Als I lay on Yoolis Night
2. Lullay Lullow I Saw a Swete Semly Syght
3. Nova Nova; Blessed Virgin Mary
4. Nowell Tydynges Trew Ther Be Cum New
5. Hayl Mary Ful of Grace; Blessed Virgin Mary
6. Ther Is No Rose of Swych Vertu
7. Alleluya Pro Virgine Maria
8. Alleluya A Nywe Werk Is Come on Honde
9. Make We Joye Nowe in This Fest
10. What Tydynges Bryngest Thou, Messangere
11. Nowel Owt of your Slepe Aryse
12. Nowel Syng We Bothe Al and Som
13. Synge We To This Mery Cumpane
14. Nowell Dieus Wous Garde Byewsser
15. Nowell The Borys Hede (The Exeter Boar's Head Carol)
16. Marvele Noght, Josep
17. Thys Endere Nyghth I Saw a Syghth
18. Lully Lulla Thow Littel Tyne Child (The Coventry Carol)
19. As I Out Rode This Enderes Night (The Coventry Shepherds' Carol)
20. We happy hirdes men
21. Come Love We God!
22. Sweet Was the Song the Virgine Soong
23. Thus Angels Sun (The Angels' Song)
24. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
25. O remember Adam's fall/Remember, O thou man
EUROPEAN CAROLS 1550-1700
1. Riu, riu, chiu
2. Verbum carol factum est: Y la Virgen le dezia
3. El la don, don Verges Maria
4. Gaudete!
5. Psallite Unigenito
6. En! Natus Est Emanuel - Lo! Born is our Emmanuel
7. Puer Natus In Bethlehem - A Boy is Born in Bethlehem - Ein Kind
8. Resonet in Laudibus - Let the Voice of Praise Resound - Joseph
9. Magnum Nomen Domini Emanuel - O Proclaim the Mighty Name Emmanuel!
10. Quem Pastores Laudavere - Shepherds Sang Their Praises O'er Him
11. Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland - Saviour of the Gentiles, Come!
12. In Dulci Jubilo - Good Christian Men Rejoice!
13. Vom Himmel Hoch, da Komm'Ich Her - From Highest Heaven I come to
14. Christum Wir Sollen Loben Schon - From Lands That See the Sun Arise
15. Als Ich Bei Meinen Schafen Wacht - While By My Sheep I Watched At
16. Es Steht Ein'Lind im Himmelreich - There Stood in Heaven a linden tree
17. Vom Himmel Hoch, o Engel, Kommt! - Come Angels Come from Heaven
18. Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen Entsprungen - He Smiles Within His Cradle
19. Es Ist Ein Roess Entsprungen - Of Jesse's Line Descended
20. O Jesulein Suss! O Jesulein Mild! - O Little One Sweet! O Little One Mild
21. Wachet Auf - Wake, O Wake
22. Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern - How Fair the Morning Star Doth Shine
23. Adeste, fideles/O come, all ye faithful
24. Adeste, fideles/O come, all ye faithful
25. Christians, Awake!
26. Lo! He Comes, With Clouds Descending - Lo! He Come, an Infant stranger
27. Lift Up Your Heads in Joyful Hope
28. Hark! Hear you not a Chearful Noise
29. Hark! Hark! What News the Angels Bring
30. Joy to the World!
31. Come let us All With Heart and Voice
32. As Shepherds in Jewry
33. Shepherds Rejoice!
34. A Virgin Unspotted
35. The Lord Descended from Above
36. Ye Nations All, on You I Call
37. Glory to God on High
38. Hail the Blest Morn!
39. Hark Hark Glad Tidings Charm Our Ears
40. Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! - Silent Night! Holy Night!
41. Arise and Hail the Sacred Day!
42. Rejoice, ye tenants of the earth
43. Rouse, rouse from your slumbers!
44. Awake, and join the cheeful choir
45. Sound, sound your instruments of joy! ( Seraphic Minstrels)
46. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
47. Once in Royal David's City
48. The Shepherds' Farewell to the Holy Family
49. Angels from the Realms of Glory
50. Good King Wenceslas Looked Out
51. What Child Is This
52. Three Kings of Orient
53. Away in a Manger
54. O Little Town of Bethlehem
55. Drei Kon'ge Wandern Aus Morgenland - Three Kings from Persian Lands
56. It Came Upon the Midnight Cleareht Ein'Lind im Himmelreich - There Stood in Heaven a linden tree
57. Vom Himmel Hoch, o Engel, Kommt! - Come Angels Come from Heaven
58. Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen Entsprungen - He Smiles Within His Cradle
59. Es Ist Ein Roess Entsprungen - Of Jesse's Line Descended
60. O Jesulein Suss! O Jesulein Mild! - O Little One Sweet! O Little One Mild
61. Wachet Auf - Wake, O Wake
62. Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern - How Fair the Morning Star Doth Shine
63. Adeste, fideles/O come, all ye faithful
64. Adeste, fideles/O come, all ye faithful
65. Christians, Awake!
66. Lo! He Comes, With Clouds Descending - Lo! He Come, an Infant stranger
67. Lift Up Your Heads in Joyful Hope
68. Hark! Hear you not a Chearful Noise
69. Hark! Hark! What News the Angels Bring
70. Joy to the World!
71. Come let us All With Heart and Voice
72. As Shepherds in Jewry
73. Shepherds Rejoice!
74. A Virgin Unspotted
75. The Lord Descended from Above
76. Ye Nations All, on You I Call
77. Glory to God on High
78. Hail the Blest Morn!
79. Hark Hark Glad Tidings Charm Our Ears
80. Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! - Silent Night! Holy Night!
81. Arise and Hail the Sacred Day!
82. Rejoice, ye tenants of the earth
83. Rouse, rouse from your slumbers!
84. Awake, and join the cheeful choir
85. Sound, sound your instruments of joy! ( Seraphic Minstrels)
86. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
87. Once in Royal David's City
88. The Shepherds' Farewell to the Holy Family
89. Angels from the Realms of Glory
90. Good King Wenceslas Looked Out
91. What Child Is This
92. Three Kings of Orient
93. Away in a Manger
94. O Little Town of Bethlehem
95. Drei Kon'ge Wandern Aus Morgenland - Three Kings from Persian Lands
96. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Ding Dong Ding
2. Past Three O'Clock
3. Blessed Be That Maid Marie
4. Hail Blessed Virgin Mary!
5. Ding Dong Merrily on High
6. Lullay My Liking - I Saw a Maiden - Myn Lyking
7. Love Came Down at Christmas
8. In the Bleak Mid Winter
9. Bethlehem Down
10. Dormi Jesu - Sleep Sweet Babe (The Virgin's Cradle Hymn)
11. Wither's Rocking Hymn
12. Watts's Cradle Hymn
13. A Boy Was Born Free
14. A Hymn to the Virign
15. Torches
16. Make we joy now in this fest
17. There is no rose of such virtue
18. Adam lay ybounden; Christmas
19. The Fader of heven
20. When Christ was born of Mary free
PART TWO: TRADITIONAL CAROLS
ENGLISH TRADITIONAL
1. The Boar's Head Carol
2. Come All You faithful Christians
3. The Holly and the Ivy
4. Now the Holly Bears a Berry (The St. Day Carol)
5. The Cherry Tree Carol
6. When Righteous Joseph Wedded Was
7. O Joseph, Being an Old Man Truly/Joseph being an aged man truly
8. The Seven Joys of Mary
9. The Seven Rejoices of Mary
10. The Blessings of Mary
11. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
12. The Twelve Days of Christmas
13. In Those Twelve Days
14. The Old Yeare Now Away Is Fled
15. Rejoice and Be Merry
16. The First Nowell
17. Nowell and Nowell
18. All Hayle to the Dayes
19. On christmas Night All Christians Sing
20. The Sussex Carol
21. Let All That Are to Mirth Inclined
22. The Lord at First Did Adam Make; Christmas
23. When God at First Created Man; Christmas
24. A Virgin Unspotted/A Virgin Most Pure
25. The Angel Gabriel from God was sent
26. God's dear Son, without beginning
27. A Child this day is born
28. Shepherds, arise!
29. I saw three ships comes sailing in
30. As I sat on a sunny bank
LUCK-VISIT SONGS
1. This is the truth sent from above
2. God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
3. Come All You Worthy Gentlemen
4. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
5. Christemas Hath Made an End/Well-a-day! (The Gooding Carol)
6. Wassail! Wassail All Over the Town (The Gloucestershire Wassail)
7. A Wassail A Wassail Throughout All This Town!
8. We've Been a While A-Wandering (The Yorkshire Wassail Song)
9. Wassail O Wassail All Over the Town! (The Somerset Wassail)
10. Here We Come A-Wassailing (Wassail Song)
IRISH TRADITIONAL
1. The Darkest Midnight in December
2. Ye Sons of Men, With Me Rejoice
3. Good People All This Christmastime
4. Day Is Come!
WELSH TRADITIONAL
1. Oer Y'wr Gwr Sy'n Methu Caru/Soon the Hoar Old Year Will Leave Us/Deck the Hall With Boughs of Holly (Noz Galan)
2. O Deued Pob Cristion/Come All Christians, Singing
3. Wel, Dyma'r Borau Gorau I Gyd
AMERICAN TRADITIONAL
1. O Mary and the baby, sweet lamb!
2. Mary had a baby
3. Go tell it on the mountain
4. Rise up, shepherd, and follow!
5. Lullay, thou tiny little child
6. I wonder as I wander
7. Sing we the Virgin Mary
TRINIDADIAN TRADITIONAL
* The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
GERMAN TRADITIONAL
1. Es Sungen Drei Engel/'Te Deum Laudamus!' three angels sang
2. Te Deum Laudamus Three Angels Sang
3. Maria durch ein' Dornwald ging/Blest Mary Wanders Through the Thorn
4. Kommet, ihr Hirten/Come all ye shepherds
5. Schlaf wohl, du Himmelsknabe du/O Sleep, Thou Heaven-Born Treasure, Thou
6. Es kommt ein Schiff geladen/A Ship There Comes, a-Laden/Uns kompt ein Schiff gefahren/There comes a ship a-sailing
7. O du fröhliche! O du selige!/O Most Wonderful! O Most Merciful!
8. O Tannenbaum/O Christmas tree/O Dannebom
CZECH TRADITIONAL
1. Zezulka Z Lesa Vylitla/Out of the forest a cuckoo flew
2. Hajej, nynej, Jezisku/Jesu, Jesu, baby dear
3. Hajej, nynej, Jezisku/Jesu, Jesu, baby dear
POLISH TRADITIONAL
* W zlobie lezy/Infant holy, Infant lowly
PROVENÇAL TRADITIONAL
1. Guillô Pran Ton Tamborin!/Guillô come, and Robin too
2. De matin ai rescountra lou trin/Ce matin j'ai rencontreé le train/Far away, what splendour comes this way? (Marcho di Rei)
3. Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle!/Comes with torhces, Jeanette, Isabella!
FRENCH TRADITIONAL
1. Noel nouvelet!
2. Dans cette étable/Cradled all lowly
3. Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris/Oxen and asses stand around
4. Quelle est cette odeur agréable/Shepherds, what fragrance, all-perfuming
5. Quittez pasteurs/O leave your sheep ; Epiphany
6. Il est né, le divin Enfant!/Christ is born a child on earth!
7. Berger, secoue ton sommeil profond!/Shepherd, shake off your drowsy sleep!
8. Les anges dans nos campagnes/Angels we have heard on high/Angels, we have heard your voices
BASQUE TRADITIONAL
1. Birjina gaztettobat zegoen/The angel Gabriel from heaven came
2. Oi Betleem!/Sing lullaby! l Christmas
SPANISH TRADITIONAL
1. El Desembre congelat/Cold December's winds were stilled
2. Veinticinco de diciembre/Twenty-fifth day of December
3. El Noi de la Mare/The Son of the Virgin
NEOPOLITAN TRADITIONAL
* Quando nascette Ninno/When Christ, the Son of Mary
(Weihnachtschorbuch)