Carols
Subtitle: Their Origin, Music, and Connection With Mystery-Plays
Publisher: Library Reprints
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780722261064
Subjects: General; Music
First sentence: The very first carol ever heard by mortal ears was that which was sung by the angels over the fields of Bethlehem when our Lord was born, "Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men," and although we can quite well imagine St. Mary crooning a cradle-song over her little Babe in the Bethlehem manger, yet it was not until more than 1200 years later that the first carol was sung on earth in a tiny Italian village, called Grecia, near Assisi.