Sheet Music
The international book of Christmas carols
Publication Information
Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall [1963]
Physical Description
xiii, 338 p. illus. 29 cm.
Notes
In part for voice and piano, in part for chorus (SATB); words in English or in the original languages, with English translations.
Includes chord symbols for chord organs, accordions, guitars, ukuleles, and other fretted instruments.
"This book ... offers 164 carols from all sections of the Western world."
Contents
- We wish you a merry Christmas
- Good Christian men, rejoice
- The seven joys of Mary
- This endris night
- Good King Wenceslas
- God rest you merry, gentlemen
- Coventry carol
- When Christ was born of Mary free
- The holly and the ivy
- The friendly beasts
- The first nowell
- Joy to the world
- What child is this?
- While shepherds watched their flocks
- Gloucestershire wassail
- The boar's head carol
- Wassail song
- The twelve days of Christmas
- On Christmas night (Sussex carol)
- Blessed be that maid Marie
- A virgin unspotted
- Once in royal David's city
- Sleep, holy babe
- Hark! the herald angels sing
- As with gladness men of old
- Angels from the realms of glory
- Masters in this hall
- I saw three ships
- Deck the hall with boughs of holly
- The snow lay on the ground
- Baloo, Lammy.
- (Contents con't.) I heard the bells on Christmas Day
- All my heart this night rejoices
- Away in a manger
- There's a song in the air
- It came upon the midnight clear
- O little town of Bethlehem
- Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight
- We three kings of Orient are
- Gather around the Christmas tree
- Jingle bells
- Up on the housetop
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- 'Twas in the moon of wintertime
- Behold that star
- Rise up, shepherd, and follow
- Children, go where I send thee
- Mary had a baby
- Go tell it on the mountain
- O po' little Jesus
- Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber
- Brightest and best (Star of the East)
- We sing in celebration
- He is born, the holy child
- Angels o'er the fields were singing
- O come away, ye shepherds
- The sleep of the infant Jesus
- What is this perfume so appealing?
- (Contents con't.) Neighbor, what has you so excited?
- O holy night
- Pat-a-pan
- Ballad of Jesus Christ
- Although you still are weak and helpless
- Christmas comes anew
- Sleep, little dove
- Shepherd, shake off your drowsy sleep
- Whence comes this rush of wings afar?
- March of the kings
- Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabella
- Touro-louro-louro
- Whence art thou, my maiden?
- O how joyfully
- O Christmas tree
- Ring, little bells
- O come, little children
- In Bethlehem so lowly
- While by my sheep (Echo carol)
- Joseph, dearest Joseph mine
- The Christmas tree with its candles gleaming
- Susani
- Come running, you shepherds
- Shepherds' cradle song
- Dear nightingale, awake
- Maria wanders through the thorn
- From heaven above to Earth I come.
- (Contents con't.) Break forth, o beauteous heavenly light
- Beside thy cradle here I stand
- How brightly shines the morning star
- Lo, how a rose e'er blooming
- Lippai
- As lately we watched
- The twilight is falling
- Above, on the mountain
- Silent night, holy night
- A baby in the cradle
- Still, still, still
- Gloria
- The simple birth
- Today we welcome a tiny child
- The happy Chrismtas comes once more
- Lovely is the dark blue sky
- Child Jesus
- A child is born in Bethlehem
- Yuletide is here again
- When Christmas morn is dawning
- Thy little ones, dear Lord, are we
- You green and glittering tree, good day
- O Christmas, you season of childlike delight
- I am so glad on Christmas Eve.
- (Contents con't.) Jesus holy, born so lowly
- O come rejoicing
- O star o'er Bethlehem shining
- Christ is born this evening
- Shepherds came to Bethlehem
- Only a manger bed
- Carol of the hay
- In midnight's silence
- Polish lullaby
- Praise to Jesus, our salvation
- We are going to the stable
- Rocking carol
- We have heard in Bethlehem
- From out the forest a cuckoo flew
- I go to Bethlehem
- Sweet Mary sings her babe to sleep
- Come, hear the wonderful tidings
- At the gates of heaven above
- Angels from heaven
- Carol of the bagpipers
- From starry skies thou cometh
- Jesus, the new-born baby
- Sleep, o sleep, my lovely child
- A la nanita nana
- Come, my dear old lady
- Thou art well content
- Foom, foom, foom
- The son of Mary.
- (Contents con't.) Holy Joseph and Mary the maid
- King Herod
- The icy December
- Carol of the birds
- We'll speak very softly
- O Bethlehem
- A fire is started in Bethlehem
- Bells over Bethlehem
- O my loveliest one
- In Bethlehem's cradle
- The holy child
- At the hour of midnight
- Song of the wise men
- Shepherds in Bethlehem
- Happily singing
- We are singing
- As the frightened baby Jesus
- The journey
- Going to Bethlehem
- Pray give us lodging
- The babe
- Hasten now, o shepherds
- O come, O come, Emmanuel
- Of the Father's love begotten
- A boy is born in Bethlehem
- Whom of old the shepherds praised
- O come, all ye faithful.