CHRISTMAS CAROLS.
Singing carols at Christmas is a very ancient custom, and the first were modelled on the songs written to accompany cliorie dancing. Later the carol found its way from pagan rituals into the Christian Church.
Many of the fifteenth century carols have the quality of folk songs, and preserve some interesting legends. The singing of carols nourished most in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Milton and Ben Jonson wrote some specialty beautiful ones. Charles Wesley a hundred years later wrote “Hark! How the Welkin Rings”— now known as “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.”
The first printed collection of carols was published in 1621, and it contains the well known “Boar’s Head” Carol, still sung every Christmas at Queen’s College, Oxford. The carol in France is known as Noel.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2372, 24 December 1921, Page 4
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131CHRISTMAS CAROLS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2372, 24 December 1921, Page 4
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