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 ...
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 ...
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 ...