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Carol · Traditional
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Deck the Halls
Traditional Welsh melody
The familiar holiday tune traced back to the Welsh New Year song “Nos Galan,” its collectors, and its nineteenth-century English words.
Wassail · Traditional
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Gloucestershire Wassail
Traditional English carol
A communal visiting song whose long-form melody carries the sound of an English midwinter custom into the archive.
Carol · Traditional
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I Saw Three Ships
Traditional English carol
A buoyant English carol followed from oral tradition and nineteenth-century print into four contemporary instrumental readings.
Carol · 1818
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Silent Night
Franz Xaver Gruber
Joseph Mohr’s poem and Franz Xaver Gruber’s melody, first heard together in an Austrian parish in 1818.