Music and carols at Christmas
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Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.
Traditional Christmas carols
Songs which are traditional, even some without a specific religious context, are often called Christmas carols. A more or less standard set of these traditional carols might include such titles as:
"Angels We Have Heard on High"
"Away in a Manger"
"Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella"
"Coventry Carol"
"Ding Dong Merrily on High"
Popular Christmas songs
Of all the most-performed "holiday" songs, the oldest songs are "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and "Winter Wonderland", which were both published in 1934. "Jingle Bells" is the most hugely popular among all the Christmas songs.
The first verse and chorus are the well-remembered sections of "Jingle Bells":
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bobtails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight!
(chorus)
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way;
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way;
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
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