But the most special part of the Yuletide, the true meaning of the period, is celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, which is why Christmas carols have a special place in our hearts and evoke a ...

Christmas carols ... by Isaac Watts from 1719, this carol was set to music by Lowell Mason in 1839, celebrating the joy of Christ's birth and His reign. This traditional English carol dates ...

A few historians have traced parts of this ancient custom and the song as far back as the fifth century, according to the book More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas by Ace Collins.

“He told my grandfather that some elderly relatives of his knew this traditional ... the editors of The Oxford Book of Carols, the gold-standard repository of Christmas songs, which published ...

African American Christmas carols have confidently claimed their superiority over all other holiday music. Their unmatched ability to infuse soul and rhythm into the season has left traditional ...

The high festive days of Christmas ... Carol rings true, for snow has fallen, “snow on snow, snow on snow on snow.” Our long, cold winter is one of the many reasons I have embraced the ...

Christmas Goes Baroque is a collection of traditional Christmas carols and holiday songs reimagined by Peter Breiner. You can sample music from this festive collection and pick up a copy when you ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.