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Folk carols resources

This is where you can get a sneak preview of the songs we'll probably be singing this year: scores (sheet music) and recordings. The term "symphony" refers to an instrumental bridge between verses.

Thanks to the compilers of Jack Goodison's "Red Book", now out of print, for the transcriptions of some of the Sheffield carols. We've added underlay (lyrics) to these scans. We're grateful also to Ian Russell, the leading expert on the Yorkshire/Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire carol tradition for permission to include some of his editions in our loaner booklet. Also thanks to Edwin Macadam of Shelwin music.


2018 WORKSHOP
* Mighty trump
* Sherborne mummers song
* Os tres reis (Azores)
* Boscastle Jack (We'll never say goodbye in heaven)
2017:
* Chittlehampton wassail
* Koleda (Lithuanian)
* The Old Tune (While shepherds, Nottinghamshire)
* Ring on ye bells
2016:
* All hail my friends (Exmoor)
* Messiah was born (Sheffield)
* Softly the night is sleeping (based on 19th-cent hymn by Caleb Simper)
2015:
* Joseph was a-walking
* Somerset wassail
* Cunliffe St
* Tau garçó

2014:
* We Singers Make Bold (A Merry Christmas)
* Diadem
* Stannington
* "Mick's Wassail" (arr Katy Cooper)


2013:
* Shepherds Rejoice (Derbyshire) (2-part) 
* Whilst Shepherds watched (Cornwall)
* Awake ye drowsy mortals all (Oxfordshire)
* The Shepherds Amazèd (Oxfordshire)
* Christians Awake?
* Hail Smiling Morn?


2012:
* Nativity (American treatment of an English west gallery carol)
* Wassail song (Cornwall) 
* Kto Nikolaj (Slovakian hymn to St Nicholas)
 

PUB SINGINGS
Here are jpg scans of some other songs which may well come up in the course of the pub singings. 
Christians awake 
Hail smiling morn (18th-century glee)
Boar's head carol
 
From Cornwall: 
Shepherds arise/Sing all earth
Whilst shepherds watched (with tune in tenor)
Arise and hail the glorious star p.1 p.2
While Shepherds (New) 

From America:
(recordings here, online scores below)
Deep drop  (American treatment of an English west gallery carol)
The babe of Bethlehem (Ye nations all)
Sherburne
Milford
 
As shepherds in Jewry:
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From Yorkshire:
Awake arise good Christian (Sheffield carol) 
Egypt (ditto)
Awake my harp:
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New Celestial: 
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Old Foster:
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Oughtibridge:
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Spout Cottage:
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