Contents of Christmas Carol Collections
Carols for Choirs 1
A boy was born
A Christmas Carol
A great and mighty wonder
A merry Christmas
A virgin most pure
Adeste fideles
And there were shepherds
Angels, from the realms of glory
As with gladness men of old
Away in a manger (2 versions)
Blessed be that maid Mary
The Blessed son of God
The Boar's head carol
Carol, with lullaby
Coventry Carol (2 versions)
Ding dong! merrily on high
The first nowell
Gallery carol
Gloucestershire wassail
God rest you merry, gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Hark! the herald angels sing
The holly and the ivy
I saw three ships (2 versions)
In dulci jubilo
Infant holy, infant lowly
It came upon the midnight clear
King Jesus hath a garden
The linden tree carol
Lute-book lullaby
No sad thought his soul affright
O come, all ye faithful
O little one sweet
O little town of Bethlehem
O men from the fields
Once in royal David's city
Past three a clock
Rejoice and be merry
Rocking
See amid the winter's snow
The Shepherd's farewell
Sussex Carol
The three kings
Torches
Unto us is born a son
Up! good Christen folk, and listen
We've been a while a-wandering
What cheer?
When Christ was born
While shepherds watched their flocks
While the shepherds were watching
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Carols for Choirs 2
A babe is born I wys
A child is born in Bethlehem
A New Year carol
Adam lay ybounden
All my heart this night rejoices
All this time
The Angels and the shepherds
The cherry tree carol
Come leave your sheep
Come, thou redeemer of the earth
Deck the hall
Ding dong! merrily on high
Down in yon forest
Gabriel's message
Hail! blessed Virgin Mary
Hark! the herald angels sing
He is born the divine Christ child
Here we come a-wassailing
The holly and the ivy
How far is it to Bethlehem?
I saw a maiden
I sing of a maiden
Il est né le divin enfant
The infant king
It came upon the midnight clear
The Lord at first did Adam make
Masters in this hall
Matin responsory
Myn lyking
Nativity carol
A New Year carol
Noel nouvelet
Nowell, sing nowell
O come, all ye faithful
O come, O come, Emmanuel
Of the father's heart begotten
Once in royal David's city
Out of your sleep
Past three a clock
Patapan
Personent hodie
Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
Quem pastores laudavere
Quittez, pasteurs
Resonemus laudibus
Sans day carol
The shepherd's cradle song
Shepherds left their flocks a-straying
Shepherd's pipe carol
Silent night
Sir Christemas
There is no rose
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
The truth from above
The twelve days of Christmas
Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?
While shepherds watched their flocks
Zion hears the watchmen's voices
Zion hört die Wätchter singen
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Carols for Choirs 3
A babe is born in Bethlehem
A child this day is born
All in the morning
Angel tidings
Angelus ad Virginem
Bethlehem, of noblest cities
Birthday carol
Boar's head carol
Child in a manger
Christ was born on Christmas Day
Christe, redemptor omnium
Christmas Oratorio (3 extracts)
Come all you worthy gentlemen
Come, rock the cradle for him
The Cradle
Cradle song
The crown of roses
Deck the hall
Donkey carol
Earth has many a noble city
Flemish carol
Gabriel's message
Hark! the herald angels sing
He is born the divine Christ-child
He smiles within his cradle
Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber
I saw three ships
Il est né le divin enfant
In dulci jubilo
In the bleak mid-winter
Jesus Child
King Herod and the cock
King Jesus hath a garden
Kings of orient
Legend
Lo! he comes with clouds descending
O come, all ye faithful
O little town of Bethlehem
Omnis mundus jocundetur
Once, as I remember
Psallite unigenito
Salve puerule
Shepherds, in the field abiding
Silent night
Sing we to this merry company
Star carol
Stille Nacht
Sunny bank
Susanni
The crown of roses
There is no rose
This joyful Eastertide
Tryste Noel
Wexford Carol
What child is this?
What sweeter music
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Carols for Choirs 4 (for children's or women's choirs)
A Merry Christmas
A New Year Carol
A Virgin most pure
Adeste fideles
Angels, from the realms of glory
Angelus ad Virginem
As with gladness men of old (2 versions)
Away in a manger
The cherry tree carol
Coventry carol
Deck the hall
Ding dong! merrily on high
Donkey carol
The first Nowell
Gabriel to Mary came
Gabriel's message
God rest you merry, gentlemen (2 versions)
Good King Wenceslas
Hail! bless Virgin Mary
Hark! the herald angels sing (2 versions)
He smiles within his cradle
The holly and the ivy
How far is it to Bethlehem?
I saw three ships
I sing of a maiden
Il est né le divin enfant
In dulci jubilo (2 versions)
The Infant King
It came upon the midnight clear
King Jesus hath a garden
The Linden tree carol
Lute-book lullaby
A Merry Christmas
Nativity Carol
A New Year carol
O come, all ye faithful
O come, O come, Emmanuel
O little town of Bethlehem
Once in royal David's city (2 versions)
Past three a clock
Personent hodie
Quelle est cette odeur agréable
Quem pastores laudavere
Rocking
See amid the winter's snow
Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Shepherds left their flocks a-straying
Silent Night
Star Carol
Stille Nacht
Sussex Carol
There is no rose
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Unto us is born a son
Up! good Christen folk, and listen
A Virgin most pure
Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?
While shepherds watched their flocks
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Mathias A Babe Is Born
Scheidt/Willcocks A Child Is Born in Bethlehem
Praetorius A Great and Mighty Wonder
Carter A Maiden Most Gentle
Warrell A Merry Christmas
Britten A New Year Carol
Howells A Spotless Rose
Wood A Virgin Most Pure
Warlock Adam Lay Ybounden
Ebeling All My Heart This Night Rejoices
Wishart Alleluya A New WOrk is Come On Hand
Willcocks Angels from the Realms of Glory
Willcocks Angelus ad Virginem
Willcocks As With Gladness Men of Old
Maxwell Davies Ave Plena Gracia
Kirkpatrick/Willcocks Away in a Manger
Mathias A Babe Is Born
Willcocks Birthday Carol
Rutter Born In a Stable So Bare
Willcocks The Cherry Tree Carol
Rutter Child in a Manger
Willcocks A Child is Born in Bethlehem
Rutter Christmas Night
Coventry Carol^N
Shaw Coventry Carol
Rutter Cradle Song
Tchaikovsky The Crown of Roses
Pierpont/Willcocks Dashing Through the Snow
Willcocks Deck the Hall
Woodward Ding Dong Ding
Willcocks Ding Dong Merrily on High
Wood Ding Dong Merrily on High
Willcocks The First Nowell
Willcocks Gabriel to Mary Came
Willcocks Gabriel's Message
Willcocks God Rest You Merry
Rutter Going Through the Hills
Willcocks Good King Wenceslas
Rutter Good People All
Praetorius A Great and Mighty Wonder
Wood Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary
Mendelssohn/Willcocks Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Rutter Have You Heard the Story?
Willcocks He Is Born the Divine Christ Child
Britten Here We Bring New Water
Rutter Here We Come A-Wassailing
Walford Davies The Holly and the Ivy
Williamson How Sweet and Clear
Willcocks Hush! My Dear, Lie Still and Slumber
Carter/Willcocks I Danced in the Morning
Percival I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
R.R. Terry I Saw a Fair Mayden
Pettman I Saw a Maiden
Rutter I Saw Three Ships
Willcocks I Saw Three Ships
Warrell I Wish You a Merry Christmas
Niles/Rutter I Wonder as I Wander
Willcocks Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
Rutter In Bethlehem All in a Stable
Pearsall In Dulci Jubilo
Holst In the Bleak Midwinter
Darke In the Bleak Midwinter
Willcocks Infant Holy Infant Lowly
Willcocks The Infant King
Willcocks It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Rutter Jesus Child
Willcocks It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Rutter Jesus Child
Willcocks Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Poston Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Pierpont/Willcocks Jingle Bells
Willcocks Joseph Was an Old Man
Mason/Rutter Joy to the World
Cleobury Joys Seven
Wood King Jesus Hath a Garden
Hopkins/Willcocks Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending
Praetorius Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming
Percival Longfellow's Carol
Carter/Willcocks Lord of the Dance
Lully Lully^N
Shaw Lully Lulla
Ballet/Shaw Lute Book Lullaby
Carter A Maiden Most Gentle
Rutter Mary's Lullaby
Warrell A Merry Christmas
R.R. Terry Myn Lyking
Rutter Nativity Carol
Britten New Year Carol
Rutter Now the Holly Bears a Berry
Mathias Nowell Nowell
Wade/Willcocks O Come All Ye Faithful
Willcocks O Come O Come Emmanuel
J.S. Bach O Little One Sweet
Vaughan Williams/Armstrong O Little Town of Bethlehem
Walford Davies O Little Town of Bethlehem
Rogers O Queen of Heaven
Willcocks Of the Father's Heart Begotten
Willcocks On Christmas Night All Christians Sing
Rutter On the First Day of Christmas
Wood Once As I Remember
Gauntlett/Mann/Willcocks Once in Royal Davids City
Rodney Bennett Out of Your Sleep
Wood Past Three O'Clock
Holst Personent Hodie
Willcocks Quelle Est Cette Odeur
Rutter Quem Pastores Laudavere
Rogers Rigina Coeli Laetare
Willcocks Rejoice Today With One Accord
Rutter Rise Up Shepherd
Rutter Sans Day Carol
Willcocks See Amid the Winter's Snow
Rutter See the Child That Mary Bore
Berlioz The Shepherds' Farewell
Willcocks Shepherds in the Field Abiding
Rutter Shepherds Left Their Flocks A-Straying
Rutter Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Gruber/Willcocks Silent Night
Holst Sing Aloud on This Day!
Willcocks Sing Lullaby!
Rutter Sing This Night
Mathias Sir Christemas
Rutter Softly Through the Winter's Darkness
Howells A Spotless Rose
Rutter Star Carol
Ledger Still Still Still
Gruber/Willcocks Stille Nacht
Willcocks Sussex Carol
Ballet/Shaw Sweet Was the Song the Virgin Sang
Willcocks The Angel Gabriel
Willcocks The Cherry Tree Carol
Tchaikovsky The Crown of Roses
Cleobury The First Good Joy That Mary Had
Willcocks The First Nowell
Walford Davies The Holly and the Ivy
Willcocks The Infant King
Berlioz The Shepherds' Farewell
Cornelius/Atkins The Tree of Life
Vaughan Williams The Truth from Above
Rutter The Twelve Days of Christmas
Rutter There Is A Flower
Stevens There Is No Rose
Rutter This Christmas Night
Williamson This Christmas Night
Vaughan Williams This is the Truth Sent from Above
Wood This Joyful Eastertide
Berlioz Thou Must Leave Thy Lowly Dwelling
Cornelius/Atkins The Three Kings
Cornelius/Atkins Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar
Willcocks Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Vaughan Williams The Truth from Above
Rutter The Twelve Days of Christmas
Willcocks Unto Us Is Born A Son
Woodward Up! Good Christen Folk and Listen
Wood A Virgin Most Pure
Vaughan Williams Wassail Song
Vaughan Williams Wassail Wassail
Hopkins/Willcocks ^We Three Kings^N
Warrell We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Rutter Wexford Carol
Walton What Cheer?
Jacques When Christ Was Born
Tchaikovsky When Jesus Christ Was Yet a Child
Willcocks Whence Is That Goodly Fragrance Flowing?
Willcocks While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Gauntlett/Willcocks Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
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MEDIEVAL CAROLS
Verbum Supernum Prodiens/High Word of God Eternal Light
Veni Redemptor Gencium/Come Thou Redeemer of the Earth
Christe Redemptor Omnium/O Christ the Father's Only Son
A Solis Ortus Cardine/From Lands that See the Sun Arise
Letabundus/Come Rejoicing
Festa Dies Agitur
Dieus Soit En Cheste Maison
Angelus ad Virginem/Gabriel fram Heven King
Procedenti Puero-Eya! Noveus Annus Est/Verbum Caro Factum Est-Eya! Novus Annus Est
Ad Cantus Leticie
Laudemus Cum Armonia
Verbum Caro Factum Est
Dies Est Leticie
Verbum Car Factum Est: In Hoc Anni Circulo
Verbum Patris Umanatur
veni Veni Emanuel/O Come O Come Emmanuel
Qui Creavit Celum/He Who Made the Earth so Fair (Song of the Nuns of Chester)
Dies Est Laeticiae/Earth With Joy This Day Doth Ring
Corde Natus Ex Parentis/f the Father's Heart Begotten
Personent Hodie/On This Day Earth Shall Ring
Puer Nobis Nascitur/Unto Us Is Born a Son
Omnis Mundus Iucundetur
ENGLISH CAROLS 1400-1700
Lullay Lullay Als I Lay on Yoolis Night
Lullay Lullow I Saw a Swete Semly Syght
Nova Nova
Nowell Tydynges Trew Ther Be Cum New
Hayl Mary Ful of Grace
Ther Is No Rose of Swych Vertu
Alleluya Pro Virgine Maria
Alleluya A Nywe Werk Is Come on Honde
Make We Joye Nowe in This Fest
What Tydynges Bryngest Thou, Messangere
Nowel
Owt of your Slepe Aryse
Nowel Syng We Bothe Al and Som
Synge We To This Mery Cumpane
Nowell Dieus Wous Garde Byewsser
Nowell The Borys Hede (The Exeter Boar's Head Carol)
Marvele Noght, Josep
Thys Endere Nyghth I Saw a Syghth
Lully Lulla Thow Littel Tyne Child (The Coventry Carol)
As I Out Rode This Enderes Night (The Coventry Shepherds' Carol)
We happy hirdes men
Come Love We God!
Swete Was the Song the Virgine Soong
Thus Angels Sun (The Angels' Song)
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
O Remember Adam's Fall - Remember O Thou Man
EUROPEAN CAROLS 1550-1700
Riu Riu Chiu
Verbum Caro Factum Est Y La Virgen le Dezia
E La Don, Don Verges Maria
Gaudete!
Psallite Unigenito
En! Natus Est Emanuel - Lo! Born is our Emmanuel
Puer Natus In Bethlehem - A Boy is Born in Bethlehem - Ein Kind Geborn Zu Bethlehem
Resonet in Laudibus - Let the Voice of Praise Resound - Joseph Lieber Joseph Mein - Joseph Dearest Joseph Mine
Magnum Nomen Domini Emanuel - O Proclaim the Mighty Name Emmanuel!
Quem Pastores Laudavere - Shepherds Sang Their Praises O'er Him
Num Komm der Heiden Heiland - Saviour of the Gentiles, Come!
In Dulci Jubilo - Good Christian Men Rejoice!
Vom Himmel Hoch, da Komm'Ich Her - From Highest Heaven I come to Tell
Christum Wir Sollen Loben Schon - From Lands That See the Sun Arise
Als Ich Bei Meinen Schafen Wacht - While By My Sheep I Watched At Night
Es Steht Ein'Lind im Himmelreich - There Stood in Heaven a Linden Tree
Vom Himmel Hoch, o Engel, Kommt! - Come Angels Come from Heaven Appear
Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen/He Smiles Within His Cradle
Es Ist Ein Roess Entsprungen - Of Jesse's Line Descended - Es Ist Ein Reis Entsprungen - A Great and Mighty Wonder - O Jesulein Suss! o Jesulein Mild - O Little One Sweet! O Little One Mild!
Wachet Auf - Wake, O Wake
Wie Schon Leuchtet der Morgenstern - How Fair the Morning Star Doth Shine
EUROPE AND AMERICA 1700-1830
Adeste Fideles - O Come All Ye Faithful
Christians, Awake!
Lo! He Come, With Clouds Descending - Lo! He Come, an Infant Stranger
Lift Up Your Heads in Joyful Hope
Hark! Hear you not a Chearful Noise
Hark! Hark! What News the Angels Bring
Joy to the World!
Come let us All With Heart and Voice
As Shepherds in Jewry
Shepherds Rejoice!
A Virgin Unspotted
The Lord Descended from Above
Ye Nations All, on You I Call
Glory to God on High
Hail the Blest Morn!
Hark Hark Glad Tidings Charm Our Ears
Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! - Silent Night! Holy Night!
Arise and Hail the Sacred Day!
Rejoice, Ye Tenants of the Earth
Rouse, Rouse From Your Slumbers!
Awake and Join the Cheerful Choir
Sound Sound Your Instruments of Joy (Seraphic Minstrels)
THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Once in Royal David's City
The Shepherds' Farewell to the Holly Family
See Amid the Winter's Snow
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Good King Wenceslas Looked Out
What Child Is This
Three Kings of Orient
Away in a Manger
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Drei Kon'ge Wandern Aus Morgenland - Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar (Die Konige)
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Ding Dong Ding
Past Three O'Clock
Blessed Be That Maid Marie
Hail Blessed Virgin Mary!
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Lullay My Liking - I Saw a Maiden - Myn Lyking
Love Came Down at Christmas
In the Bleak Mid Winter
Bethlehem Down
Dormi Jesu - Sleep Sweet Babe (The Virgin's Cradle Hymn)
Wither's Rocking Hymn
Watts's Cradle Hymn
A Boy Was Born in Bethlehem
A Hymn to the Virgin
Torches
Make We Joy Now in this fest
There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
Adam Lay ybounden
The Fader of Heven
When Christ Was Born of Mary Free
PART TWO:TRADITIONAL CAROLS
ENGLISH TRADITIONAL
The Boar's Head Carol
Come All You faithful Christians
The Holly and the Ivy
Now the Holly Bears a Berry (The St. Day Carol)
The Cherry Tree Carol
When Righteous Joseph Wedded Was
O Joseph, Being an Old Man Truly
Joseph Being an Aged Man Truly
The Seven Joys of Mary
The Seven Rejoices of Mary
The Blessings of Mary
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
The Twelve Days of Christmas
In Those Twelve Days
The Old Yeare Now Away Is Fled
Rejoice and Be Merry
The First Nowell
Nowell and Nowell
All Hayle to the Dayes
On christmas Night All Christians Sing
The Sussex Carol
Let All That Are to Mirth Inclined
The Lord at First Did Adam Make
When God at First Created Man
A Virgin Unspotted
A Virgin Most Pure
The Angel Gabriel from God Was Sent
God's Dear Son Without Beginning
A Child This Day Is Born
Shepherds Arise
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
As I Sat on a Sunny Bank
LUCK-VISIT SONGS
This Is the Truth Sent from Above
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
Come All You Worthy Gentlemen
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Christemas Hath Made an End
Well a Day!
The Gooding Carol
Wassail! Wassail All Over the Town
The Gloucestershire Wassail
A Wassail A Wassail Throughout All This Town!
We've Been a While A-Wandering
The Yorkshire Wassail Song
Wassail O Wassail All Over the Town!
The Somerset Wassail
Here We Come A-Wassailing (Wassail Song)
IRISH TRADITIONAL
The Darkest Midnight in December
Ye Sons of Men, With Me Rejoice
Good People All This Christmastime
Christmas Day Is Come!
WELSH TRADITIONAL
Oer Y'wr Gwr Sy'n Methu Caru
Soon the Hoar Old Year Will Leave Us
Deck the Hall With Boughts of Holly
Nos Galan
O Deued Pob Cristion
Come All Christians Singing
Wel, Dyma'r Borau Gorau I Gyd
AMERICAN TRADITIONAL
O Mary and the Baby Sweet Lamb
Mary Had a Baby
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
Lullay Thou Tiny Little Child
I Wonder as I Wander
Sing We the Virgin Mary
TRINIDADIAN TRADITIONAL: The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
GERMAN TRADITIONAL
Es Sungen Drei Engel
Te Deum Laudamus Three Angels Sang
Maria Durch Ein'Dornwald Ging
Blest Mary Wanders Through the Thorn
Kommet, Ihr Hirten
Come All Ye Shepherds
Schlaf Wohl, Du Himmelsknabe Du
O Sleep Thou Heaven-Born Treasure Thou
Es Kommt Ein Schiff Geladen
A Ship There Comes A-Laden
Uns Kompt Ein Schiff Gefahren
There Comes a Ship A-Sailing
O Du Frohliche! O Du Selige!
O Most Wonderful! O Most Merciful!
O Tannenbaum
O Christmas Tree
O Dannebom
CZECH TRADITIONAL
Zezulka Z Lesa Vylitla
Out of the Forest a Cuckoo Flew
Hajej Nynej Jezisku
Jesu Jesu Baby Dear
POLISH TRADITIONAL
W Zlobie Lezy
Infant Holy Infant Lowly
PROVENÇAL TRADITIONAL
Guillo Pran Ton Tamborin!
Guillo Come and Robin Too
De Matin Ai Rescountra Lou Trin
Ce Matin J'ai Rencontre Le Train
Far Away What Splendour Comes This Way
Un Flambeau Jeannette Isabelle!
Come With Torches Jeanette Isabella!
FRENCH TRADITIONAL
Noel Nouvelet
Dans Cette Etable
Cradled All Lowly
Entre Le Boeuf et L'ane Gris
Oxen and Asses Stand Around
Queele Est Cette Odeur Agreable
Shepherds What Fragrance All Perfuming
Quittez Pasteurs
O Leave Your Sheep
Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
Christ Is Born a Child On Earth
Berger Secoue Ton Sommeil Profond
Shepherd Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep
Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes
Angels We Have Heard On High
Angelsj We Have Heard Your Voices
BASQUE TRADITIONAL
Birjina Gaztettobaty Zegoen
The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came
Oi Betleem!
Sing Lullaby
SPANISH TRADITIONAL
El Desembre Congelat
Cold December's Winds Were Stilled
Veinticinco de Diciembre
Twenty-Fifth Day of December
El Noi De La Mare
The Song of the Virgin
NEOPOLITAN TRADITIONAL
Quando Nascette Ninno
When Christ the Son of Mary
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