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beautiful, endless historical dig through the minute details of hundred of Christmas carols, I can sit and read this thing for hours, The book that turned me on to Personent Hodie, For those interested in Christmas carols especially those carols outside the standard, lateth Century, popular, American canon, The New Oxford Book of Carols is an excellent resource.
And although this book is a product of the music department at Oxford University and contains a fair amount of musical arrangements and notations, it is still accessible to people who aren't well versed in music.


The New Oxford Book of Carols presents an authoritative anthology, It contains a handy table of contents, a lengthy introduction, a thorough bibliography, indexes of feasts, seasons, sources, first lines, and titles, and several appendices, It is divided into two parts: composed carols and traditional carols, This distinction roughly translates to historical/ancient composed and contemporary traditional,

Part I groups carols by date of composition and loose geographic region: Middle Ages, English Carols, European Carols, Europe and America, Later Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth

Century,

Part II groups carols by ethnicity: English, Irish, Welsh, American, Trinidadian, German, Czech, Polish, Provencal French, French, Basque, Spanish, and Neapolitan,

Entries for each carol provide the title and any title variations, approximate date of composition, basic musical arrangement, lyrics, and explanatory notes from the members of Oxford University's music department as to date of creation, sources used, various/traditional musical arrangements, similarities to and variations of other carols, etc.
The date provided for each carol is based on the first appearance of the words and music together, so older melodies set to lyrics composed decades to centuries later are categorized by the date that the music is first known to have been arranged with the text.
Well, if you love the origins of Christmas carols, or enjoy playing original historical tunes as a musician, or are just simply curious about where some carols came fromgo to the source, and read this hugely comprehensive volume.
Who knew so many early Christmas carols were antiSemitic, for instance Or that cradle rocking was trendy inthth century Germany Well, you would know this if you read this book.
Edited by early music experts Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, this anthology of Christmas carols is the most comprehensive collection ever made, spanning seven centuries of caroling in Britain, continental Europe, and North America.
Containing music and text ofcarols, many in more than one setting, the book is organized in two sections: composed carols, ranging from medieval Gregorian chants to modern compositions, and folk carols, including not only traditional AngloAmerican songs but Irish, Welsh, German, Czech, Polish, French, Basque, Catalan, Sicilian, and West Indian songs as well.
Each carol is set in fourpart harmony, with lyrics in both the original language and English, Accompanying each song are detailed scholarly notes on the history of the carol and on performance of the setting presented, The introduction to the volume offers a general history of carols and caroling, and appendices provide scholarly essays on such topics as fifteenthcentury pronunciation, English country and United States primitive traditions, and the revival of the English folk carol.
The Oxford Book of Carols, published in, is still one of Oxford's bestloved books among scholars, church choristers, and the vast number of people who enjoy singing carols.
This volume is not intended to replace this classic but to supplement it, Reflecting significant developments in musicology over the past sixty years, it embodies a radical reappraisal of the repertory and a fresh approach to it, The wealth of information it contains will make it essential for musicologists and other scholars, while the beauty of the carols themselves will enchant general readers and amateur songsters alike.
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