Christmas songs

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Christmas songs
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CHRISTMAS CAROLS

• QUESTION 1.
• Which melody was written to comemorate the
  invention of printing press and later adapted as
  a Christmas carol?

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

• It is a movement from Festgesang by Felix
  Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composed for the Gutenberg
  Festival in 1840 to celebrate the 400th
  anniversary of the printing press
• Lyrics by Charles Wesley, whose older brother was
  the founder of Methodist Chruch
• Adapted 15 years later by W.H.Cummings

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• Hark the herald angels sing"Glory to the newborn
  King!Peace on earth and mercy mildGod and
  sinners reconciled"Joyful, all ye nations
  riseJoin the triumph of the skiesWith the
  angelic host proclaim"Christ is born in
  Bethlehem"Hark! The herald angels sing"Glory to
  the newborn King!"

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• QUESTION 2.
• According to a story, which carol was composed in
  an emergency when the church organ had broken
  down on Christmas Eve?

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Silent Night

• THE STORY
• On Christmas Eve, 1818, the organ of Saint
  Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, Austria, was
  broken.
• the assistant pastor of the church JOSEPH MOHR
  and the organist FRANZ GRUBER composed the hymn
  in just hours.
• It was sung in three-part arrangement with the
  accompaniment of a guitar.

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• Silent night, holy nightAll is calm, all is
  bright'Round yon virgin mother and ChildHoly
  infant so tender and mildSleep in heavenly
  peaceSleep in heavenly peaceSilent night, holy
  night,Shepherds quake at the sight.Glories
  stream from heaven afar,Heav'nly hosts sing
  AlleluiaChrist the Saviour is bornChrist the
  Saviour is bornSilent night, holy night,Son of
  God, love's pure light.Radiant beams from Thy
  holy face,With the dawn of redeeming
  grace,Jesus, Lord, at Thy birthJesus, Lord, at
  Thy birth

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• QUESTION 3.
• Which famous song is composed by the author of
  the ballet Giselle?

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Oh, Holy Night

• The composer is Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
• At the beginning the song was condemned by
  Catholic Church
• Now a beloved carol

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• QUESTION 4.
• Which Christmas carol is about the patron saint
  of the Czech state?

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Good King Wenceslas

• This carol tells the story of the sainted
  Catholic king, Wenceslas, who ruled Bohemia in
  the 10th century.
• He was dedicated to establishing the Christian
  faith in his pagan country. Vaclav's efforts were
  condemned by both his brother Boleslav and his
  mother, Drahomira, and eventually, Vaclav was
  murdered by Boleslav
• The song is about the king and his page who go
  out to give alm to a poor peasant on the Feast on
  Stephen (Dec 26)

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• Good King Wenceslas looked outOn the feast
  of StephenWhen the snow lay round aboutDeep and
  crisp and evenBrightly shone the moon that
  nightThough the frost was cruelWhen a poor man
  came in sightGath'ring winter fuel"Hither,
  page, and stand by meIf thou know'st it,
  tellingYonder peasant, who is he?Where and what
  his dwelling?""Sire, he lives a good league
  henceUnderneath the mountainRight against the
  forest fenceBy Saint Agnes' fountain."

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• "Bring me flesh and bring me wineBring me pine
  logs hitherThou and I will see him dineWhen we
  bear him thither."Page and monarch forth they
  wentForth they went togetherThrough the rude
  wind's wild lamentAnd the bitter weather"Sire,
  the night is darker nowAnd the wind blows
  strongerFails my heart, I know not how,I can go
  no longer.""Mark my footsteps, my good
  pageTread thou in them boldlyThou shalt find
  the winter's rageFreeze thy blood less coldly."

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• In his master's steps he trodWhere the snow lay
  dintedHeat was in the very sodWhich the Saint
  had printedTherefore, Christian men, be
  sureWealth or rank possessingYe who now will
  bless the poorShall yourselves find blessing

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• QUESTION 5.
• Which Christmas carol was used to teach the
  children Catholic truths of faith?

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Twelve Days of Christmas

• True Love refers to God
• Partridge -- The One True God
• Two turtle doves -- Old and New Testaments

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• Three French hens - Faith, Hope and Charity
• Four colley birds -- the Four Evangelists,
• Matthew, Mark, Luke and
• John or four Gospels
• Five gold rings
• the first five books
• of the Bible

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• Six geese -- six jars of water, turned to wine by
  Jesus at the wedding at Cana
• Seven swans -- seven Sacraments
• Eight maids a-milking -- eight Beatitudes

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• Nine ladies dancing -- nine Choirs (or ranks) of
  Angels
• Ten lords a-leaping
• Ten Commandments

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• Eleven pipers -- eleven faithful disciples
• Twelve drummers
• twelve Apostles,
• or the twelve tribes of Israel

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There is a modern adaption by Beyonce and
Destinys Child 8 Days of Christmas

• The the feelin' that I feel is so good He makes
  me feel so in lo-lo-lo-lo-love If he only knew
  what he does to me My man, my man, my baby Oh
  he makes me feel so lovely, so sexy I'm so in
  lo-lo-lo-lo-love How I love him for his
  generousity My man, my man, my baby

• On the 8th day of Christmas my baby gave to me a
  pair of chloe shades a diamond belly ring On
  the 7th day of x-mas my baby gave to me a nice
  back rub and he massaged my feet On the 6th day
  of x-mas my baby gave to me a cropped Jacket
  with dirty denim jeansOn the 5th day of x-mas my
  baby gave to me a poem that he wrote for me

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• Doesn't it feel like x-mas (it feels lovely)
  Doesn't it feel like x-mas (it feels so lovely)
  Doesn't it feel like x-mas (wooooooooaaaaaaahhhh)
  Yes it feels like x-mas Doesn't it feel like
  x-mas (it feels lovely) Doesn't it feel like
  x-mas (it feels so lovely) Doesn't it feel like
  x-mas (the spirit of x-mas) Yes it feels like
  x-mas

• On the 4th day of x-mas my baby gave to me a
  candlelit dinner just me my honey On the 3rd
  day of x-mas my baby gave to me a gift
  certificate to get my favorite CD's On the 2nd
  day of x-mas my baby gave to me the keys to a
  CLK Mercedes On the 1st day of x-mas my baby
  gave to me quality T-I-M-E

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TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS SONGS

• QUESTION 6
• A well-known Christmas song has originally one
  more verse, which is never sung. It starts as
  following
• THE SUN IS SHINING,
• THE GRASS IS GREEN,
• THE ORANGE AND PALM TREES SWAY
• Which song is it?

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White Christmas

• The song was written by Irving Berlin in December
  1937 while staying in Beverly Hills, homesick for
  his family back in New York
• The most familiar version is Bing Crosby's which
  has sold over 31 million copies to date.

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• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the
  ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten,
  and children listen To hear sleigh bells in the
  snow.
• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every
  Christmas card I write May your days be merry
  and bright And may all your Christmases be
  white.
• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every
  Christmas card I write May your days be merry
  and bright And may all your Christmases be
  white.

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• QUESTION 7.
• Which Christmas song was originally created as a
  part of the advertising campaign of a department
  store?

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Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer

• The author of lyrics, ROBERT MAY was requested to
  produce a poem that could be given away to
  children by the Santa Claus employed by
  Department Stores at Christmas
• In 1948, May's brother-in-law Johnny Marks, a
  composer, set the story to music
• In 1949 the singer Gene Autry recorded the song
  and it became a hit!

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• Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny
  nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even
  say it glows. All of the other reindeer used
  to laugh and call him names. They never let poor
  Rudolph join in any reindeer games. Then one
  foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say "Rudolph
  with your nose so bright, won't you guide my
  sleigh tonight?" Then all the reindeer loved
  him as they shouted out with glee, Rudolph the
  red-nosed reindeer, you'll go down in history! 

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• QUESTION 8.
• Which song was originally written for
  Thanksgiving?

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Jingle Bells

• The author and composer of Jingle Bells was a
  minister called James Pierpoint who composed the
  song in 1857 for children celebrating his Boston
  Sunday School Thanksgiving.

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• Dashing through the snowIn a one horse open
  sleighO'er the fields we goLaughing all the
  wayBells on bob tails ringMaking spirits
  brightWhat fun it is to laugh and singA
  sleighing song tonightOh, jingle bells, jingle
  bellsJingle all the wayOh, what fun it is to
  rideIn a one horse open sleighJingle bells,
  jingle bellsJingle all the wayOh, what fun it
  is to rideIn a one horse open sleigh

• A day or two agoI thought I'd take a rideAnd
  soon Miss Fanny BrightWas seated by my sideThe
  horse was lean and lankMisfortune seemed his
  lotWe got into a drifted bankAnd then we got
  upsotOh, jingle bells, jingle bellsJingle all
  the wayOh, what fun it is to rideIn a one horse
  open sleighJingle bells, jingle bellsJingle all
  the wayOh, what fun it is to rideIn a one horse
  open sleigh yeah

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POP/ROCK CHRISTMAS SONGS

• QUESTION 9.
• Which Christmas song is a protest song against
  the Vietnam War?

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Happy Xmas (War is Over)

• The lyric is based on a campaign in late 1969 by
  John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, who rented
  billboards and posters in eleven cities around
  the world that read "WAR IS OVER! (If You Want
  It) Happy Christmas from John and Yoko".
• The single was released in 1971 in the US, it was
  re-released in the UK on Dec, 20 1980, directly
  following John Lennon's death on Dec,8 1980.

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• So this is ChristmasAnd what have you
  doneAnother year overAnd a new one just
  begunAnd so this is ChristmasI hope you have
  funThe near and the dear oneThe old and the
  youngA very merry ChristmasAnd a happy New
  YearLet's hope it's a good oneWithout any
  fearAnd so this is ChristmasFor weak and for
  strongFor rich and the poor onesThe world is so
  wrong

• And so happy ChristmasFor black and for
  whiteFor yellow and red onesLet's stop all the
  fight A very merry ChristmasAnd a happy New
  YearLet's hope it's a good oneWithout any
  fearAnd so this is ChristmasAnd what have we
  doneAnother year overAnd a new one just
  begunAnd so this is ChristmasI hope you have
  funThe near and the dear oneThe old and the
  youngA very merry ChristmasAnd a happy New
  YearLet's hope it's a good oneWithout any
  fearWar is over overIf you want itWar is over

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• QUESTION 10.
• Which is the biggest-selling single which has
  never been the 1st in UK charts?

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Last Christmas

• A song by Wham, released in 1984
• Although the song is the biggest-selling single,
  it was beaten by Band Aid

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Do They Know Its Christmas

• Band Aid were a British and Irish charity
  supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and
  Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine
  relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record "DO
  THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?" for the Christmas
  market.
• It went straight to the first position in the UK
  chart, stayed there for five weeks and sold over
  three million copies.

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• It's ChristmastimeThere's no need to be
  afraidAt Christmastime, we let in light and we
  banish shadeAnd in our world of plenty we can
  spread a smile of joyThrow your arms around the
  world at ChristmastimeBut say a prayer Pray
  for the other onesAt Christmastime it's hard,
  but when you're having funThere's a world
  outside your windowAnd it's a world of dread and
  fear

• Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting
  of tearsAnd the Christmas bells that ring there
  are the clangingchimes of doomWell tonight
  thank God it's them instead of you
• And there won't be snow in Africa this
  ChristmastimeThe greatest gift they'll get this
  year is life(Oooh) Where nothing ever growsNo
  rain nor rivers flowDo they know it's
  Christmastime at all?(Here's to you) raise a
  glass for everyone(Here's to them) underneath
  that burning sunDo they know it's Christmastime
  at all?Feed the worldFeed the world

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• QUESTION 11.
• Which song was planned to be a part of the
  musical (which never emerged)?

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Happy New Year

• By ABBA in 1980, from album Super Trouper
• Written in Barbados in January 1980, Happy New
  Year was originally intended for a musical about
  a New Years Eve, one of Björn and Bennys many
  attempts to get started with a more ambitious
  piece of musical drama.

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• No more champagneAnd the fireworks are
  throughHere we are, me and youFeeling lost and
  feeling blueIts the end of the partyAnd the
  morning seems so greySo unlike yesterdayNows
  the time for us to say...Happy new yearHappy
  new yearMay we all have a vision now and thenOf
  a world where every neighbour is a friendHappy
  new yearHappy new yearMay we all have our
  hopes, our will to tryIf we dont we might as
  well lay down and dieYou and i

• Sometimes I seeHow the brave new world
  arrivesAnd I see how it thrivesIn the ashes of
  our livesOh yes, man is a foolAnd he thinks
  hell be okayDragging on, feet of clayNever
  knowing hes astrayKeeps on going
  anyway...Happy new yearHappy new yearMay we
  all have a vision now and thenOf a world where
  every neighbour is a friendHappy new yearHappy
  new yearMay we all have our hopes, our will to
  tryIf we dont we might as well lay down and
  dieYou and i

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• Seems to me nowThat the dreams we had beforeAre
  all dead, nothing moreThan confetti on the
  floorIts the end of a decadeIn another ten
  years timeWho can say what well findWhat lies
  waiting down the lineIn the end of
  eighty-nine...Happy new yearHappy new yearMay
  we all have a vision now and thenOf a world
  where every neighbour is a friendHappy new
  yearHappy new yearMay we all have our hopes,
  our will to tryIf we dont we might as well lay
  down and dieYou and i

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• Thank you for your attention!
• Merry Christmas and enjoy the singing throughout
  the holiday season!