The history of carol/hymn-writing contains many such examples of words ... Only occasional examples (before modern times) show one individual writing both words and music, for example the Pennsylvania ...

Latin hymns were set to music, while new compositions appeared that were unrelated to official church liturgy – pastorałki and carols in local languages. The popularity of Christmas songs was boosted ...

The folk melody of the “Sussex Carol” originally came from the town of Monk’s Gate in Sussex, and the lyrics are from a 1684 publication, A Small Garden of Pious and Godly Songs by Irish ...

This traditional English carol was among those collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams on one of his folk music preservation missions. It came from the singer, Mrs. Verrall from Monk's Gate near ...

singable descants that lifted the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was director of music from 1957 to 1974 (see more below about the choir). ‘[Descants] ...

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