Added: 11/16/2006 |
"A White Christmas" and other Christmas lights musicThere are many carols associated with the magic of Christmas. Many are familiar and some are not. In some old English Christmas carols, holly and ivy are put into a curious antagonism, apparently connected with a contest of the sexes. Holly is the men's plant and ivy is the women's plant. The carols are debates as to the respective merits of each.
“Holly and Ivy made a great party,
Who should have the mastery,
In lands where they go.
Then spoke Holly, ‘I am free and jolly,
I will have the mastery,
In lands where we go.
Then spoke Ivy, ‘I am loved and proved,
And I will have the mastery,
In land where we go.
Then spoke Holly, and set him down on his knee,
‘I pray thee, gentle Ivy,
Say me no villainy,
In lands where we go.”
The origins of Christmas lights music is fascinating! A Christmas song is a song which is normally sung during the time period leading up to Christmas day and usually has lyrical content addressing the holiday, the winter season or both. Some songs have little relationship to Christmas, but are hyped up over the period. Each year, record companies compete for the Christmas number one single spot, usually, but not always, with a Christmas-related song.
For example, often times we hear Christmas lights music speak of “Yule Tide “. The Swedish Yule comes, in part at least, from the last sheaf at harvest to which, as embodying the corn-spirit, a peculiar significance is attached. To the Swedish, like the Polish, Yule straw has sundry virtues; scattered on the ground it will make a barren field produce; and it is used to bind trees and make them fruitful. Again, the peasant at Christmas time will sit on a log and throw up Yule straws one by one to the roof. As many pieces of straw as get lodged in the rafters would indicate how many will be the sheaves of rye at the harvest.
“Rudolph the red-nosed-reindeer” is a popular 20th century song among children. White Christmas music is a very large part of keeping Christmas at most family households. Thought to be a wonderful time by most, family togetherness, beautiful music and decorations, feasting on special foods and singing Christmas lights music fill every passing minute beginning late November until the day of Christmas! Angels We Heard on High, As I Wander, Frosty the Snowman, Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, Let It Snow! And others make up just a few on a long list of Christmas lights music.
This music is most often times played on piano, organs and string instruments by children and adults alike. The most moving music ever experienced has been said to be played by either Kenny G, the famous saxophonist, or by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, whose light show is incomparable! Concerts at schools and museums, churches and libraries fill the air with music at Christmas time. Food is the accompanist and drink is the warmth found in all children’s voices big and small. There is a special feeling in the air when the music begins…one that can only be captured in the music of Christmas! Nothing compares with the small, yet loud discovery that carolers are at your door and singing their hearts out! “Deck the Halls” and “Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree” are two popular favorites. The songs and music of Christmas leave one feeling full: full of love, full of gratitude, full of hope for a future, full of gladness and good tidings! So the next time you sing a Christmas song, remember how wonderful this time of year can be when shared with those whose lives have been touched some way by Christmas music!
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