Sacred Carols Playlist
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Sacred Carols
Think of these as popularized church hymns and folk songs brought into the mainstream. In other words, nothing a Benedictine Monk might be chanting at dusk… but certainly fun songs to sing at a that laid-back Christmas Eve service your parents dragged you to… and later in the high school choirs around December 10th… or about 1,234 YouTube clips by Pentatonix wannabees… They revolve primarily around the religious stories associated with Christmas and less the traditional holiday sentiments (e.g., Santa Claus, presents, mistletoe, snow, etc.). While most of these are derived from centuries-old folk tunes, more recent songs have also been added to the canon such as “Mary, Did You Know” by Mark Lowry/Buddy Green (1991) and “Christmas Lullaby” from Jason Robert Brown’s musical Songs for a New World.
EXAMPLES:
“Angels We Have Heard on High”
“Christmas Lullaby" from Songs for a New World
“Do You Hear What I Hear?”
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
“Hark the Herald Angels Sing”
“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”
“Mary, Did you Know”
“O Holy Night”
“O Tannenbaum” (Oh, Christmas Tree)
“Silent Night”
“The First Noel”
“The Little Drummer Boy”
“We Three Kings of Orient Are”
“What Child is This” (Greensleeves)