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