CHRISTMAS CAROLS

Christmas  Carol just a different name for a song, and carols are simply songs that are about Christmas. Christmas hymns, a hymn can be a carol, but a carol is not necessarily a hymn if it doesn't specifically cover the birth or life of Christ.Song is the set of all lyric-based music.

Carol is a subset of "Song", meant to be jovial, and sung in a group - anything from Deck the Halls to Silent Night. Christmas Carol is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season. Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category of Christmas music.

Hymn is another subset of "Song", which overlaps "Carol". Since we're speaking of odes and praises, I see Silent Night as a Hymn.

Christmas Caroling

The idea of Christmas caroling brings to mind jolly bands of churchgoers, dressed in shawls and top hats, going door-to-door, also known  Caroling. Just as poor people in big cities today can be found on corners singing for money, in centuries past beggars would sing carols for food or money. In the 1500's this public singing was banned in England by Oliver Cromwell (a real Grinch!!!), which lead to people going door to door and singing carols in private.

Popular Carols:

  Silent Night- 1818
  O Come all ye Faithful -1843
 Angels we Have Heard on High -1862
  We Three Kings -1863
 O Little Town of Bethlehem -1868
  Away in a Manger -1883
 Carol of the Bells -1916
  The Twelve Days of Christmas -1951
  Do You Hear what I Hear -1962
 O Holy Night -1956
  Little Drummer Boy -1957

Christmas Carol Collection

 Jingle Bells

 We Wish You A Merry Christmas

 The Twelve Days Of Christmas

  Do You Hear What I Hear?

 Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
 Deck The Halls Must be Santa
 Rockin' Around The Christmas tree

 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
 Sleigh Ride

  Silver Bells

 Here Comes Santa Claus Holly Jolly Christmas
 Joy To The World

 O Come All Ye Faithful
 Silent Night, Holy Night

 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

 Good King Wenceslas

 Away In A Manger
 In The Bleak Mid-Winter

 The First Noel

   All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth