What makes holiday music so popular years after they came out and what do modern songs have in common with them? A Virginia ...

Christmas carols are among the oldest songs people still sing, according to Dr. Keely Rhodes, an assistant professor of music at USC Aiken. Rhodes presented “Music and Merriment: Origins of the ...

The Jambar As the holiday season ramps up, so too does the constant barrage of Christmas music. Whether you’re ...

If you’re in search of an ancient, theologically rich carol this season, look no further than “Of the Father’s Love Begotten.” Long before it became a Christmas carol in the 19th century, this hymn ...

A popular Christmas concert blending ancient carols, folk melodies, and festive classics is returning to the stage.

Here's an ancient Christmas carol, from a choir with an only slightly less lengthy history: the 15th-century "There Is No Rose," sung by the Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, founded in 1670.

You might have many favorite Christmas carols. But do you know the stories behind them? Here are the stories behind some of my favorite Christmas carols: • “O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste, Fideles)” ...

The Napa Valley Opera House rang out with the sounds of the holidays Friday night, but not the usual Christmas standards so deeply embedded in our brains. Three female instrumentalists from the ...

🎵 Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la! We hear them every year, echoing through shops, churches and town squares, but how often do we pause to consider the origins of our favourite Christmas carols? Here is ...

The Christmas traditions we love, trees, stockings, carols, plum cake, didn’t start the way we think. Their surprising ...

Charles Dickens’s novella, A Christmas Carol, was written in 1843 during a time when publications such as Davies Gilbert’s Some Ancient Christmas Carols and William B. Sandys’s Selection of Christmas ...