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	Christmas carol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Christmas carol is a carol ( song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general.
		Carols suffered a decline in popularity after the Reformation in the countries where Reformation settled, but survived in their rural communities until the revival of interest in Carols in the 19th century.
		In England there is a tradition of Christmas carolling (earlier known as wassailing), in which groups of singers travel from house to house, singing carols, for which they are often rewarded with money, mince pies, or a glass of an appropriate drink.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_carol (593 words)

	Ceremony of Carols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Britten's largest choral work is the "War Requiem" composed in 1962 based on the Latin mass and the poems of Wilfred Owen who was killed in World War I. The Ceremony of Carols, composed in 1942, is another excellent example of his mastery of choral work.
		The Ceremony of Carols was inspired by Britten's discovery of "The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems" and was apparently composed in part while returning to Britain from the United States.
		The carols are largely the product of 15th and 16th century writers, most of whom are anonymous.
	www.napervillechorus.org /ceremony.html (311 words)

	Britten: A Ceremony of Carols \| Gordon Jones, Benjamin Britten, ... \| The best version of this...
		Of the many accounts of Britten 's Ceremony of Carols in the catalog, this one is the best.
		A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Balulalow - Jeremy Unwin
		A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: As Dew In Aprille
	www.this-is-great.com /info/xbfffffsxzxjxc (516 words)

	'Britten - A Ceremony of Carols' by Benjamin Britten from The Portsmouth Chorus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		'Britten - A Ceremony of Carols' by Benjamin Britten from The Portsmouth Chorus.
		There are 33 items in total here, twelve in the Ceremony of Carols itself and twelve more songs in the collection entitled 'Friday afternoons' because that was when they were first rehearsed by his brother's pupils.
		The Ceremony itself is set for trebles with a virtuosic harp accompaniment despatched with enormous panache by Skaila Kanga.
	www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music-cd/B00000145U (556 words)

	A ceremony of carols ; A boy was born ; Rejoice in the lamb (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A ceremony of carols ; A boy was born ; Rejoice in the lamb (in MARION)
		A ceremony of carols ; A boy was born ; Rejoice in the lamb
		A ceremony of carols ; A boy was born ; Rejoice in the lamb [sound recording] / Britten.
	js-catalog.cpl.org /MARION/BGN-7168 (137 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christmas
		The day became a favourite for court ceremonies, and on it, e.g., William of Normandy was crowned at Westminster.
		Prudentius, in the fourth century, is the first (and in that century alone) to hymn the Nativity, for the "Vox clara" (hymn for Lauds in Advent) and "Christe Redemptor" (Vespers and Matins of Christmas) cannot be assigned to Ambrose.
		The famous "Stabat Mater Speciosa" is attributed to Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306); "Adeste Fideles" is, at the earliest, of the seventeenth century.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03724b.htm (4650 words)

	Versand/Musik/ A Ceremony of Carols & a Boy Was Born & Friday Afternoons & Psalm 150 - online ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Musik : A Ceremony of Carols and a Boy Was Born and Friday Afternoons and Psalm 150
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		A Ceremony of Carols and a Boy Was Born and Friday Afternoons and Psalm 150
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		It includes two of my favourite Britten pieces, the ‘Ceremony of Carols’ and ‘Missa Brevis in D’, and a couple of pieces (the ‘Chorale’ and ‘New Year Carol’) which were new to me. I sat down to listen with high hopes.
		In ‘A Ceremony of Carols’ the ABC has chosen to eschew Church Latin pronunciation, adopting, on the grounds of historical authenticity, something rather closer to textbook Latin — a soft c rather than ‘ch’ and different vowel sounds.
		Church Latin, with its modern Italian influences, post-dates the writing of the texts by four centuries, and the argument that the spoken Latin recognised by the 16th century writers would have been rather different is hard to refute.
	www.trebles.net /reviews/ds/ds005.htm (316 words)

	Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Of the many accounts of Britten's Ceremony of Carols in the catalog, this one is the best.
		A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Balulalow - Jeremy Unwin
		A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: As Dew In Aprille
	www.zposters.com /shop/asinsearch_B000002ZJC.html (586 words)

	Christmas On Two Continents at AHCC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Written in 1942, A Ceremony Of Carols consists of nine carols plus a processional and recessional to be sung by children's choir.
		Conrad Susa's Carols and Lullabies was written in 1993 at the request of Philip Brunelle as a companion to Britten's A Ceremony of Carols.
		These carols were then set in full respect of their deep connection to Renaissance music and their artful, almost homey simplicity.
	www.ahcc.org /ChristmasOnTwoContinents.htm (363 words)

	Christ Church Cathedral Choir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After all, despite its somewhat misleading subtitle, The Golden Vanity is a deeply serious work; but it may lack the direct appeal of A Ceremony of Carols or of The Little Sweep (the latter also dealing with the same idea, that of the lonely suffering boy, although the story has its happy end).
		They were written for a variety of purposes -A Ceremony of Carols for the Fleet Street Choir, the Missa brevis (1959) for the retirement of George Malcolm as director of music at Westminster Cathedral, The Golden Vanity (1966) for the Vienna Boys' Choir.
		The accompaniments range between telling use of a harp in the Ceremony, organ in the Missa, and piano and percussion in Vanity, to the startling and original scoring for two pianos, organ and a battery of percussion in the Crusade.
	chchchoir.object4.net /reviews/brittengoldenvanity.htm (1471 words)

	St Joseph Pro Musica Concert - December 19, 1992
		A plainsong setting is used by Britten as the procession and recession for the Ceremony of Carols.
		Benjamin Britten's serene Ceremony of Carols for three treble parts, two soloists, and harp, was born during an uncertain voyage on board a Swedish cargo ship traveling through the submarine infested Atlantic as he returned to England from America during World War II.
		The ten carols are divided in two sections by the harp interlude whose melodic material harks back to the procession and the first chorus.
	www.andrews.edu /~mack/pnotes/dec1992.html (434 words)

	Britten - A ceremony of Carols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		regards the work's title as rather odd as it is neither a ceremony nor is it a narration of the Christmas story.
		After the cool beauty of ' There is no rose ' we hear a boy soprano soloist in ' That yonge child when it gan weep - with song she lulled him asleep '.
		Things warm up again for the ' Spring Carol ' 'Pleasure it is to hear iwis the birdes sing- deer in the dale- the sheep in the vale - the corn springing'.
	www.musicweb-international.com /britten.htm (738 words)

	Choir
		The Saint Matthewâs Choir will be performing Benjamin Brittenâs, A Ceremony of Carols, on Sunday, December 22 at the 9:30 AM and 11:15 AM service.
		It is based on old English carols and poems, many anonymous and mostly dating from the 15th and 16th centuries.
		Originally, A Ceremony of Carols, was written to be accompanied by harp.
	www.stmatthews-nj.org /Choir/choir.html (151 words)

	Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia - Program Notes
		They are represented by what are likely their most popular and enduring choral works: Poulenc's Gloria and Britten's Ceremony of Carols.
		Britten selected texts based on old English carols and poems, many anonymous and mostly dating from the 15th and 16th centuries.
		Britten conceived of the work as a ceremony, and it opens and closes with processionals set to the plainsong chant "Hodie Christus natus est" in unison voices.
	www.mcchorus.org /prognt01.htm (1484 words)

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		Ceremony of Carols is a candlelight service that we sing yearly in December at Kumler Chapel, a beautiful romanesque ston building.
		The Latin phrases come from the liturgy for the time and typically they would be inserted within a carol to borrow a sense of grandeur from their association with the solemnity of the church.
		For his text, Britten chose two verses of Martin Luther's Christmas carol "Vom Himmel hoch," Luther wrote for his son Hans, as translated into English in 1567 by the Wedderburn brothers.
	www.muc.muohio.edu /~choralier/ceremony.html (702 words)

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		Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols - Felix Mendelssohn: 3 Motets Op.
		The technical sound quality leaves a lot to be desired, as there is severe overload distortion at several places, and while the recording captures the great acoustics, it sounds somewhat muddy, specially during the procession at the start of the Ceremony.
		The great sound of the Escolanía is here, the boys give it all, Segarra gets the tempi just like I love it, and manages to get impressive dynamics from his 50-voice choir composed solely of boys (soprano and alto).
	www.trebles.net /reviews/composers/britten.htm (850 words)

	Britten Ceremony of Carols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Benjamin Britten's hugely popular Ceremony of Carols was composed in part while returing by ship to Britain from the United States in March 1942.
		The carols are mostly the work of 15th and 16th century anonymous writers.
		Part of their unique flavour is due to Britten's use of the old English language.
	www.galwaychoral.org /htmlpages/britten.htm (128 words)

	Hodie: English carols [JW] : Classical Reviews- Oct 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The product of some canny programming — of which Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols is the centrepiece - this is another of The Sixteen’s increasingly long line of outstanding discs.
		John Gardner’s carol is well characterised in Nicolas Robertson’s notes as "pagan, erotic and symbolically Christian" — a piece both forward looking and profoundly aware of its musical origins.
		A Ceremony of Carols was his first setting for boys’ voices, written in 1942.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Oct02/Hodie.htm (662 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Britten - A Ceremony of Carols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Cermony of Carols, op 28: 6 - As dew in Aprille
		A Cermony of Carols, op 28: 10 - Spring Carol
		A Cermony of Carols, op 28: 13 - Recession
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000145U (989 words)

	A ceremony of carols ; Hymn to St. Cecilia ; Rejoice in the lamb ; Te deum ; Jubilate deo ; Missa brevis (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A ceremony of carols ; Hymn to St. Cecilia ; Rejoice in the lamb ; Te deum ; Jubilate deo ; Missa brevis (in MARION)
		A ceremony of carols ; Hymn to St. Cecilia ; Rejoice in the lamb ; Te deum ; Jubilate deo ; Missa brevis
		A ceremony of carols ; Hymn to St. Cecilia ; Rejoice in the lamb ; Te deum ; Jubilate deo ; Missa brevis sound recording / Benjamin Britten.
	catalog.evanston.lib.il.us /MARION/ABS-7097 (204 words)

	A Ceremony of Carols Bragg Texas Boys Choir from thebusinessexpert.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Ceremony of Carols Bragg Texas Boys Choir from thebusinessexpert.co.uk
		A Ceremony of Carols Bragg Texas Boys Choir.
		the Robert Shaw Chorale for Britten: A Ceremony of Carols...
	www.thebusinessexpert.co.uk /A-Ceremony-of-Carols-Bragg-Texas-Boys-Choir.html (340 words)

	Cultural Corridor
		The Quire: Eastern Iowa's GLBT Chorus is pleased to present "A Ceremony of Carols".
		Our holiday concert is the first concert of our tenth season and includes some of our holiday favorites from the previous nine years along with a few new songs certain to become favorites.
		The centerpiece of our concert will be Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" which will be accompanied by Jacque Venter on harp.
	www.culturalcorridor.org /events_remindme.asp?R=69888 (104 words)

	Next Orpheus Concert
		During the voyage they stopped at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Britten came across a book of mediaeval poems, and during the voyage it was some of these that he set as A Ceremony of Carols.
		A Ceremony of Carols opens and ends with a procession to the plainsong Hodie Christus natus est.
		A Ceremony of Carols / A boy was born / Songs from "Friday Afternoon" / Psalm 150
	www.brightonorpheus.org.uk /Dec04_concert.htm (694 words)

	VictoriaDavies
		Britten A Ceremony of Carols, with Magdalen College Choir, conducted by Grayston Ives, Magdalen College Chapel.
		Britten A Ceremony of Carols with Christ Church Cathedral Choir, St John’s Smith Square, London.
		Britten A Ceremony of Carols with Oxford Girls’ Choir, conducted by Richard Vendome, Blenheim Palace.
	val.fancourt.users.btopenworld.com /victoriadavies.htm (936 words)

	WNYC - Evening Music with Margaret Juntwait: Ceremony of Carols (December 18, 2004)
		With Christmas fast approaching, we feature in our first hour “A Ceremony of Carols,” Benjamin Britten’s extraordinary setting of mediaeval texts for boys’ voices, treble soloists, and harp.
		Martin Neary leads the boys of the Choir of Westminster Abbey and harpist Aline Brewer; the treble soloists are Timothy Dickinson and Richard Farnsworth.
		Follow them down the aisle with your mind’s ear as they sing the Processional, enjoy the nine carol settings and harp solo, and then bid them farewell as the Recessional fades away.
	www.wnyc.org /shows/eveningmusic_s/episodes/12182004 (244 words)

	Ceremony and Carols : Gooster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Benjamin Britten - Arthur Honegger - Francis Poulenc A Ceremony of Carols
		Ceremony of Carols - cantate de Nol - Stabat mater
		Nol, chants traditionnels - A Ceremony of Carols
	sport.gooster.com /basketball/Ceremony_and_Carols_1328617.html (65 words)

	The Choristers of Upper Dublin
		It was this discovery that appears to have sparked the idea of the carol sequence.
		In addition, further texts are transcribed in Britten's hands on the flyleaf and inside back cover, one of which is "Balulalow" (No. 4b).
		The other carol from the seven Britten composed on the trip was a version of "Wolcum Yole" (No. 2) but using the Latin text "Hodie Christus natus est".
	www.thechoristers.org /CeremonyOfCarols1997.htm (906 words)

	Canciones y MP3 del disco A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28 de Benjamin Britten
		A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: That Yonge Child - Frances Kelly/Harry Bi
		A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Balulalow - Frances Kelly/Harry Bickett/E
		A Ceremony Of Carols, Op.28: Interlude - Frances Kelly
	www.solo-mp3.com /discografia.php?id=6e10d51a&cat=classical (173 words)

	Britten - Ceremony of Carols - Programme Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Benjamin Britten’s hugely popular Ceremony of Carols was inspired by his discovery of "The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems" and was composed in part while returning by ship to Britain from the United States.
		It is an unusual setting for treble voices and harp; Britten had intended to write a harp concerto and so had been studying the instrument.
		The work opens and ends with the choir processing to plainsong, and the sections in-between deal with the traditional stories surrounding the birth of Christ.
	www.choirs.org.uk /prognotes/britten%20ceremony%20of%20carols.htm (122 words)

	CD Baby: COLLEGE OF THE SISKIYOUS CHOIRS: A Mt. Shasta Christmas
		This album features the seldom recorded Kyrie and Gloria from the Leopold Mozart Missa In C and the Benjamin Britten Ceremony of Carols for women's choir along with some Irving Berlin Christmas favorites and a special "jewel" by P.D.Q. Bach.
		In the words of Maynard Solomon, foremost Mozart scholar and biographer, "(Leopold)...was a prolific and competent craftsman who composed large quantities of music as required by his employer." The Kyrie and Gloria included in this recording were composed in their entirety by Leopold Mozart.
		In 1942, during a stopover in Halifax, Nova Scotia, before crossing the Atlantic to England, Benjamin Britten purchased a copy of "The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems." It was this volume of poems which sparked off the idea for the sequence of Carols with harp accompaniment which Britten wrote during the crossing.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/siskiyous?cdbaby=38d12654da468088178bc59090051181 (336 words)

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