Yes.
"Before (Beside) Thy Cradle Here I Stand" by J.S Bach
Jingle Bells, Rodolph the red nosed reindeer,
J.S. Bach didn't write any symphonies. The form didn't really develop until after Bach died.
Carols by Candlelight is best described as a community event where anything from a few dozen to thousands of people gather in a public place to join in singing Christmas Carols, and to enjoy other Christmas-related activities. It is held in cities and towns throughout Australia on the weekends leading up to Christmas. The event is usually run by local councils or by local churches, and is open to anyone who wants to join in. Sometimes, there are stalls and rides for the kids, and even celebrities and entertainers, but more often it is a simple gathering of people in any given community for the purpose of singing carols and Christmas songs, and enjoying a few skits and plays.
It's a safe guess Christmas has the largest repertoire of songs of any Christian holiday. This allows for the fact some Christmas carols are not really Christmas -Oriented ( for example, Jingle Bells, Home for the Holidays, Sleigh Ride) but have become seasonal favorites not played at other times. It's a safe estimate, including borderline Yule songs- there must be at least 300 or 400.
Christmas music actually breaks down into several groups of songs: Hymns and carols, secular Christmas songs, and "holiday" songs, those which are commonly sung at Christmastime, but do not specifically mention Christmas in any way, "Jingle Bells" being the best example. In the area of carols, some of the most commonly heard Christmas carols are "Silent Night", "O Little Town of Bethlehem", "Away in a Manger", "Good King Wenceslaus" - there are many more.
Christmas carols can generally be transposed into any key.
no
Jingle Bells, Rodolph the red nosed reindeer,
J.S. Bach didn't write any symphonies. The form didn't really develop until after Bach died.
Carols by Candlelight is best described as a community event where anything from a few dozen to thousands of people gather in a public place to join in singing Christmas Carols, and to enjoy other Christmas-related activities. It is held in cities and towns throughout Australia on the weekends leading up to Christmas. The event is usually run by local councils or by local churches, and is open to anyone who wants to join in. Sometimes, there are stalls and rides for the kids, and even celebrities and entertainers, but more often it is a simple gathering of people in any given community for the purpose of singing carols and Christmas songs, and enjoying a few skits and plays.
It's a safe guess Christmas has the largest repertoire of songs of any Christian holiday. This allows for the fact some Christmas carols are not really Christmas -Oriented ( for example, Jingle Bells, Home for the Holidays, Sleigh Ride) but have become seasonal favorites not played at other times. It's a safe estimate, including borderline Yule songs- there must be at least 300 or 400.
You can find almost any music in choral form these days. So any music or carols can be performed by a choir.
Christmas music actually breaks down into several groups of songs: Hymns and carols, secular Christmas songs, and "holiday" songs, those which are commonly sung at Christmastime, but do not specifically mention Christmas in any way, "Jingle Bells" being the best example. In the area of carols, some of the most commonly heard Christmas carols are "Silent Night", "O Little Town of Bethlehem", "Away in a Manger", "Good King Wenceslaus" - there are many more.
In a broad sense, yes. Any art music can be termed Classical. But Classical refers to the musical period directly after Bach's. He wrote music of the Baroque period.
No.
Christmas caroling was originally known as wassailing, which involved people going door-to-door singing to wish for good health and prosperity in exchange for food and drink. The tradition dates back to medieval times in England.
I've heard a lot in 3 years, with "Jingle Bells" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" being the 2 most popular. You can hear all sorts of holiday music being played during the Christmas season in Vietnam, just like you would in America, or the any of the other countries that observe the holiday.