Christmas Music

Christmas music is religious or popular music that especially in the Christmas time is running. The Sung music is generally named with the word Christmas song. One can distinguish other types.



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[hide] *1 Distinction  ==Distinction[ Edit] == A distinction can be made between religious Christmas songs, which go over the birth of Jesus Christ, and the profane songs that describe the atmosphere around Christmas (the Santa Claus, snow or cosiness).The profane songs are mostly of American origin. Santa Claus songs correspond to our Sinterklaas songs.
 * 2 examples
 * 2.1 Classic Christmas music
 * 2.2 traditional Christian carols
 * 2.3 Other Dutch-language Christmas songs
 * 2.4 Traditional English Christmas songs
 * 2.5 Secular English-language Christmas songs
 * 2.6 Pop Christmas songs
 * 3 see also
 * 4 external links

In addition there is also classical music that was composed specially for Christmas, such as the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Certain ideologies as the communism, liberalism, secularism and the national socialism the fight the (contested) the Christian celebration of Christmas; "O Tannenbaum" ("O de Figueiredo") was for example in theThird Reich used to crowding of other Christmas songs.

The religious Christmas songs also include a number of canonical songs that have a different origin and age. For the Netherlands are a number of Christmas songs known from the 15th and 16th centuries, found in manuscripts which probably originate in circles around the modern devotion, while the genre for the Spanish Netherlands in the seventeenth century the Cantiones natalitiaemutates to. A song as How leyt this infantor are Now wellekome dates back to the beginning of the new age; Silent night was written at the beginning of the 19th century.

In the twentieth century were the Jingle Bells and songs (I'm dreaming of a) White Christmas, both products of the American music industry, the best-known representatives of the second kind Christmas songs.Many pop artists have since made a Christmas song. A peculiarity here is that these singles in Netherlands, little or no break because a taboo subject to promote the single before 6 december (one wants to protect the Saint-Nicholas party ), and the song that way short on time to be popular.

In some songs is not even for Christmas (Jingle Bells only goes about snow) but nevertheless, they are considered as Christmas songs and it is not correct them outside of the Christmas season to sing or play.

The best known performers of Christmas music are the traditional English Christmas Carol Singers. Dressed in fabulous clothes from this period bring the Charles Dickens singers vocal (a capella) and usually performed all kinds of famous Christmas songs for four voices over the Christmas period.

Belgium are the best known performers In The Christmas Carol Singers. ==Examples[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Classic Christmas music<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Traditional Christian carols<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Other Dutch-language Christmas songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Traditional English Christmas songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === MENU    0: 00 Good King Wenceslas<p lang="en" len="299" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">These are so-called Christmas carols, many of which is arranged by the British organist David Willcocks
 * "Christmas Oratorio"by Johann Sebastian Bach
 * "A ceremony of carols"by Benjamin Britten
 * "Concerto Grosso No. 8 for Christmas Eve" by Arcangelo Corelli
 * "Weihnachthistorie" by Heinrich Schütz
 * "Vom Himmel hoch da komm ' Ich her" (the text of Luther).
 * "Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël" by Francis Poulenc
 * "Silent night"(from German)
 * "The shepherds went layers at nights"
 * "Honor to God in our days"
 * "There is an infant born on nature"
 * "Glory to God"(Lucas 2: 14)
 * "Come together"/"We all together Comes" (Adeste fideles)
 * "Now are wellekome"(dates originally from the 14th century)
 * "In dulci jubilo"(1328, a mixture of Latin and Vroegduits)
 * "O Christmas night, cleaner than the days"
 * "Comes Marvel here, folks"
 * "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
 * "In the middle of the winter night" (quand Jesus naquit à Noël)
 * "No bassinet as a resting place"(traditional erroneously attributed to Martin Luther)
 * "Hear, the Herald Angels Sing d" ("Hark! The herald angels sing ")
 * "À la berline postiljon" (again made popular by Herman van Veen, more an Epiphany song)
 * "Usque Transeamus Bethlehem"
 * "O Christmas tree"(from German)
 * "The white flakes floating" (this is a ontkerkelijkte variant of the originally German-speaking "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen")
 * "With industry aensijt, be if with joy"

===Profane English-language Christmas songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Pop Christmas songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * "Away in a Manger"(Martin Luther) (with us:" no bassinet as a resting place ")
 * "Oh, come all ye faithful" ("Adeste fideles")
 * "Ding dong merrily on high"
 * "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"(also known as:" hear, the Herald Angels Sing d ")
 * "The first nowell" (also known as The first noel)
 * "Silent night" (from German: "silent night, Holy night)
 * "God rest ye merry, gentlemen"
 * "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
 * "Good King Wenceslas"from 1853
 * "Jingle Bells"
 * "We wish you a merry Christmas"
 * "Frosty the Snowman"
 * "White Christmas"
 * "Let it snow"
 * "Winter Wonderland"
 * "2000 Miles"by The Pretenders
 * "A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives
 * "All I Want for Christmas Is You"by Mariah Carey
 * "Christmas every day"by Will Tura
 * "Bakske full of straw"by Urbanus
 * "Blue Christmas", first recorded by Ernest Tubb and made famous by Elvis Presley and Dean Martin
 * The Who 's "Christmas"
 * "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay
 * "Christmas Time" by Bryan Adams
 * "Christmas Time is Here Again" by The Beatles
 * "Christmas was a friend of mine" by Fay Lovsky
 * "Do They Know it's Christmas?" by Band Aid
 * "Driving Home for Christmas"by Chris Rea
 * "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues
 * "Feliz Navidad"by José Feliciano
 * "Happy Xmas (War is over)" by John Lennon
 * "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"by Christina Aguilera or Kenny Loggins
 * "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker
 * "Last Christmas"by Wham!
 * "Lonely this Christmas"by Mud
 * "Merry Xmas everybody"by Slade
 * "Run Rudolph Run" by Chuck Berry
 * "Santa Baby", originally sung by Eartha Kitt
 * "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", played by, among others, Bruce Springsteen and Frank Sinatra
 * "" Stop The Cavalryby Jona Lewie (actually not a Christmas song, but there is something in for Christmas)
 * "Thank God it's Christmas"by Queen
 * "Wonderful Christmas Time"by Paul McCartney
 * "Shake Up Christmas" by Train