Christmas Songs And Their StoriesXlibris Corporation, 30 בנוב׳ 2005 - 136 עמודים You may visit the author's website at www.christmassongsandtheirstories.com. CHRISTMAS SONGS AND THEIR STORIES is an invitingly written and thoroughly interesting selection of facts about Christmas songs from different countries and different racial backgrounds. In addition to presenting the complete words, with variations in some cases, of 54 songs, it gives the origins of the songs, the stories of the writers and composers wherever possible, and offers pertinent information on where music for the songs may be found today. Here is a book for those who enjoy Christmas music and like to read how different peoples at different times have expressed the spirit that makes this holy day so well loved. It will also be warmly appreciated by those who have been aware that there has been no other book available dealing with more than half a dozen or a dozen of Christmas songs, their history, special characteristics, content, or suitability for use in special ways. Included in this outstanding collection are such beautiful and widely varying songs as “Away in a Manger”; “Watchman, Tell Us of the Night”; “The Boar’s Head Carol”; “Go, Tell It on the Mountains”; “O Holy Night!”; “Brahms’s Cradle Song (Christmas Version)”; and many others—familiar songs such as “O Come, All Ye Faithful” and “Deck the Halls,” and such unusual ones as “He Became Incarnate,” a Christmas carol in India. The international flavor of the book is vividly emphasized with the “National and racial grouping” of selections given at the end of the volume, while such little known facts as the symbolic meaning of the holly and the ivy, and anecdotes connected with the traditions of certain songs, help bring unusual interest to the book. The careful scholarship and convenient arrangement of the material make the book of particular value to church and Sunday school workers, ministers, and leaders of nonchurch groups preparing Christmas programs. The appealing stories of the creation of some of the world’s best-loved music and poetry make it a book to be appreciated and used not only on Christmas time, but during the rest of the year, and not only as a dependable volume reference and information, but as source of pure enjoyment. |
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Brahmss Cradle Song Christmas Version | |
Fairest Lord Jesus | |
The First Nowel | |
From Heaven Above | |
Go Tell It on the Mountains | |
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen | |
Good Christian Men Rejoice | |
Good King Wenceslas | |
Hark the Herald Angels Sing | |
Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning | |
Bring a Torch Jeannette Isabella | |
The Cherry Tree Carol | |
The Christmas Tree the Fairest Tree | |
Come All Ye Shepherds | |
Come Hither Ye Children | |
Come Thou Longexpected Jesus | |
Deck the Halls | |
Everywhere Everywhere Christmas Tonight | |
He Became Incarnate | |
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | |
Love Came Down at Christmas | |
O Come 0 Come Emmanuel | |
Once in Royal Davids City | |
Sleep My Little Jesus | |
We Three Kings of Orient | |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
adore angels sing beautiful became incarnate Bethlehem blessed boar’s head bright bring century Charles Wesley cherries Child choir Christ is born Christ-child Christian Christmas Carol Christmas Day Christmas Eve Christmas songs Christmas Tree Church composer cradle David’s Dulci Jubilo Emmanuel England English Evangelical Fair Christmas Tree Favorite Christmas foller Franz Gruber German text gifts glad glory heart heaven heavenly holly Holy Night hymn hymnals John Mason Neale Joseph Joseph Mohr joyous King Wenceslas Latin light Lord Jesus Lowell Mason lowly Luke lullaby Luther manger Mary Mary’s Morning Star mountain Music available Nativity newborn King Nowel o’er Old Orchard Publishers organist original poem popular praise prayer Rejoice Richard Storr Willis Sacred Songs sang Shepherds Watched shining Silent Night Sir John Stainer sleep stanza Stanza three story sung sweet tell Thee translation tune verses voices Watched Their Flocks Watchman Webster Groves words Worship written