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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2015
    13 November 2014
    ISBN:
    9781316216538
    9781108082884
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216538
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.4kg, 232 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Music, Religion, Music: General Interest, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Music
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    Subjects:
    Music, Religion, Music: General Interest, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Music
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    This collection of Christmas carols was published in 1864 by William Henry Husk (1814–87), a solicitor's clerk and amateur singer who was librarian of the Sacred Harmonic Society in London. He wrote many entries for the first edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and in 1875 published An Account of the Musical Celebrations on St Cecilia's Day (also reissued in this series). He organises some eighty carols (some of which are familiar, others less known in these versions, and others no longer in common use) in two groups, religious and 'festive'. Each has a headnote explaining its origin, and the general introduction describes Christmas customs, including carol-singing, which Husk fears may be in decline. The songs range from 'A babe is born' and 'Here comes holly', to several variants of 'The boar's head carol', and Husk provides musical settings for twelve of them.

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