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From:  Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Date:  Fri Nov 2, 2001  4:41 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Not-terribly Christian Christmas music?

Peter Warlock: Balulalow (also the version by Herbert Howells)

Handel: Rejoice greatly - and - He shall feed his flock/Come unto him,
from MESSIAH

Mozart: Alleluia, from EXSULTATE JUBILATE

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: The Oxen

Max Reger: Maria Wiegenlied

Hugo Wolf: Schlafendes Jesuskind



Traditional carols:

Good King Wenceslas

Ding dong, merrily on high

John Menzies Macfarlane: Far Away on Judea's Plains

I heard the bells on Christmas day

It came upon the midnight clear


Any number of different "Wiegenlieds" done for Christmas, including those
by Richard Strauss, Schubert, and Brahms.



Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html

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