Christmas Carols, Explained: Round 2
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Last year I tackled a project for December wherein I looked up the histories of 25 popular/classical Christmas songs and shared brief notes about them here. I really liked it and I decided to do it again.
Those 25 articles are paywalled now, and I think I’m going to leave them that way. You can follow along this year though, as I pick 25 new songs.
-Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
-Still, Still, Still
-Kling, Glockhen, klingelingeling
-Campana Sobre Campana
-Riu Riu Chiu
-Fum, Fum, Fum
-Hoe leit dit kindeke (How lies this little child)
-A Child is Born in Bethlehem
-Julen har bragt velsignet bud (Christmas has brought blessed tidings)
-The Holly and the Ivy
-Once in Royal David’s City
-The Cherry Tree Carol
-Now are lit a thousand Christmas lights
-Masters in this Hall
-When Christmas is Drawing Near
-La Marimorena
-Maria walks amid the thorn
-O Come, Little Children
-Silver Bells
-It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
-Rudolph
-Here Comes Santa Claus
-White Christmas
-The Christmas Song
-Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Some of them are more popular/secular this year, and some of them are highly obscure in the English-speaking world. I went very heavy on the Christ-centric songs last year, so if I do this for a third year the selection is going to skew more popular. We’ll see what happens.
But anyway, subscribe and find some new music to add to your Christmas rotation.