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    A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 is an extended choral composition for Christmas by Benjamin Britten scored for three-part treble chorus, solo voices, and...
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    was a significant contribution to a revival of carols in Victorian Britain. In 1916, Charles Lewis Hutchins published Carols Old and Carols New, a scholarly...
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  • works based on carols. Examples include Benjamin Britten (A Ceremony of Carols), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Fantasia on Christmas Carols) and Victor Hely-Hutchinson...
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  • This list of Christmas carols is organized by language of origin. Originally, a "Christmas carol" referred to a piece of vocal music in carol form whose...
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  • Britten – "Balulalow", from his A Ceremony of Carols Benjamin Britten – "That yongë child", from his A Ceremony of Carols Sarah Hopkins – "Past Life Melodies"...
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    Trafalgar Square Christmas tree (category Aftermath of World War II in the United Kingdom)
    attended by thousands of people. The ceremony, led by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, includes a band and choir followed by the switching on of the Christmas lights...
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    choir (1938) A.M.D.G. (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam), seven settings of Gerard Manley Hopkins for unaccompanied SATB (1939) A Ceremony of Carols for treble voices...
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  • Freezing Winter's Night", the ninth movement in Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, is in Locrian mode. English folk musician John Kirkpatrick's song...
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  • E-flat, a church hymn, a rehearsal of a choral piece for children's choir and harp ("As Dew in Aprille" from Britten's A Ceremony of Carols), and Janis...
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  • several future works such as A Ceremony of Carols ("This Little Babe") and Noye's Fludde. When the first recording was made of almost the entire collection...
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