CHRISTMAS:

ITS CUSTOMS AND CAROLS.

WITH COMPRESSED VOCAL SCORE

OF

SELECT CHORAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

BY

WILLIAM WALLACE FYFE.

AUTHOR OF SUMMER LIFE ON LAND AND WATER."

"With Holly and Ivy
So green and so gay,
We deck up our houses
As fresh as the day;

With Bays, and Rosemary,
And Laurel complete,

And everyone now

Is a King in conceit."

Poor Robin's Almanac, 1695.

LONDON:

JAMES BLACKWOOD, PATERNOSTER ROW.

[THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.]

1560

270.c.119.

MORALITIES

63

MUMMING PLAY OF "ALEXANDER; OR, THE KING OF EGYPT"

64

ib.

81

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82

ib.

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ib.

83

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84

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85

86

87

89

90

91

ROMAN SATURNALIA-Libertas Decembri

DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS

SUPERSTITION REGARDING REVERENCE OF ANIMALS AT THE

Brumalia, or Winter Solstice (Birth of the Sun)

The Earliest Fathers

Time of Clement

Celebration of the Nativity ordained in the Second Century

Sculptures, with musical notation of the Angel's Song (same
date)

St. Chrysostom's Christmas Sermon (Fourth Century)
Researches of Fabricius