Christmas Carols Through the Ages in Painful Prose
This piece surveys Christmas music from medieval carols to modern hits and operas. It notes saints and Tudor and Puritan eras shaping carol tradition with composers like Handel Bach and Britten. It highlights It Came Upon a Midnight Clear written by Edmund Sears and Sullivan adaptation.
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Martin Luther
Orient
Bethlehem
Rudolph
Frosty
Bach
Berlioz
Menot
England
First Cards Sold in 1860s by English Publisher
The first Christmas cards were offered to the trade by an English publishing house in the 1860s. Designs featured jolly old gentlemen resembling Santa, plum puddings, holly and mistletoe. Shop in Tripoli.
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Santa
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Hays, Mary,ful of Grace
Mervele Noght
Josep
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
St. Basil
St. Basil the Great
Greece
Julian
Ceive
U. S
United States
William Billings
Billings
New England
Weston
Mass
Edmund H. Sears
Book of Knowledge
Detroit
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan
Christ
Carnation Dairy
Eldon Kratchmer
Tripoli Hardware Les
Mirnnda
Erwald Delores
Tripoli
Iowa
Merry Christmas
Ray's Clothiers and Cleaners
Dixon
Ray and
Mavis Bruce
Wendy
H Farm Service CO
Art H. Borcherding
Les W. Borcherding
H. H. Hildebrandt
Colburn Feed Mill
Dave
Daisy
Paul