Tonus Peregrinus

Tonus Peregrinus: The Naxos Book of Carols

by C. Michael Bailey
December 21, 2003

The tradition of Christmas carols is as old as Christianity itself and has given rise to many other related holiday traditions. The English have been instrumental in the evolution of carols and caroling, uniting them and Biblical Lessons into programs (as Benjamin Britten did in A Ceremony of Carols, for trumpet, voices & harp, Op. 28 in 1942). Over the past two milennia, new pieces have been added to the Christmas canon with confident regularity. Again, the British have been ...