ART APPRECIATION: [ FINAL PRESENTATION ]
MEMBERS:
Jeffrey Jabson
Frederick Econar
Mark Gabriel del Rosario
Edgar Allan Tan
TOPIC: Singing Christmas Carols and Songs
For our final presentation, our group will sing – sing what ? We will sing Christmas Carols and songs. But why these ? It's a pity that these are heard and sung only during the holiday season. But we believe that Christmas carols are far different from other kinds or types of songs. It somehow has the ability to penetrate our hearts and squeeze all the happiness inside it. They are also easy to sing that you don't necessarily have to be a good singer in order to sing them well, young or old, boy or girl, can sing them nicely.
MATERIALS USED:
For our materials we will only use the auto-rhythm in the keyboard since none of us know how to play certain musical instruments ( like guitar, etc. ).
ABOUT CAROLING:
Christmas carols are another long – standing tradition. It is said that the first carols were sung by the angels who announced the birth of Christ. In French the word carole once referred to a type of dance accompanied by singing. The carol as a Christmas song developed in England during the 14th and 15th centuries. While many of the Christmas Eve customs are of a solemn nature, the custom of caroling is joyful and merry. Christmas songs or carols have their origins in antiquity, as do many other traditions practiced at Christmas time. There are 2 main groups of Christmas songs: the koliadky, whose name is probably derived from the Latin "calendae" meaning the first day of the month and which are sung on Christmas Eve and Christmas day; the second group of Christmas songs is called shchedrivky, which is a derivation form the word meaning generous. The latter are sung during the Feast of the Epiphany. But koliadky and shchedrivky have pagan elements in them, but many have been Christianized. For example, one pagan carol tells of a landowner who is awakened by a swallow and told to make preparations, because three guests are coming to his house: the sun, the moon and the rain. In the Christianized version the three guests become Jesus Christ, St. Nicholas and St. George. The very popular carol in the United States, "Carol of the Bells", in it's originality is a shchedrivka and tells of a swallow ( herald of Spring ) that has come to a landowner's house and asks him to come out and see how rich he is, how many calves he has, and so on. The themes of Christmas songs vary. Many, of course, deal with the birth of Christ and that occasion's joyful celebrations, and many of them have apocryphal elements. Still another group of carols contain purely pagan mythological elements. Still another group deals with history of the 9 – 12 centuries, mostly with the heroic episodes in the lives of some of the princes that were favorite among people. One of the largest group of carols are glorification songs – glorifying the landowner, the farmer, his wife, his sons, his daughters, every member of the family. These songs glorify their work as well as their personal traits.
Caroling required extensive preparation. Each group had a leader. One member dressed as a goat. Another as a bag carrier, the collector of all the gifts people would give them. Yet another carried a six-pointed star attached to a long stick with a light in it's center, which symbolized the Star of Bethlehem. In some places the people even had musical instruments, such as the violin, tsymbaly (dulcimer), or the trembita ( a wooden pipe about 8 – 10 feet long, used in the Carpathian mountains by the Hutsuls [ in Ukraine ] ).
Caroling was not a simple singing of Christmas songs; it was more of a folk opera. The carolers first had to ask permission to sing. If the answer was yes, they entered the house and sang carols for each member of the family, even the smallest child. Sometimes they even performed slow ritualistic dances. They also presented a short humorous skit involving the goat. The custom of the goat accompanying the carolers has it's origin in the pagan times when the goat rep- resented the god of fertility. The skit showed the goat dying and then being brought back to life. This also symbolized the death of Winter and the birth of Spring. The caroling always ended with short well–wishing poems, appropriately Selected for each home. Koliadky and shchedrivky are the oldest group of folk songs. They are sung at Christmas time throughout the world.
EXAMPLES OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND SONGS:
O Magsaya / Joy to the World
O magsaya at magdiwang
Pagka't sumilang na
Ang hari ng lahat ( ang hari ng lahat )
Kaya't ating buksan ( kaya'y ating buksan )
Ang pinto ng ating pagmamahalan
( ULITIN LAHAT )
Joy to the world
The Lord has come
Let Earth receive her king
Let every heart – prepare a room
Let heaven and nature sing ( let heaven and nature sing )
Let heaven, let heaven and nature sing.
Christmas in our hearts ( Jose Mari Chan )
Whenever I see girls and boys
Selling lanterns on the streets,
I remember the child in the manger as he sleeps.
Wherever there are people
Giving gifts, exchanging cards
I believe that Christmas
Is truly in their hearts
(Refrain)
Let's light our Christmas trees
For a bright tomorrow
Where nations are at peace
And all are one in God
(Chorus)
Lets sing Merry Christmas
And a happy holiday
This season, may we never forget
The love we have for Jesus
Let him be the one to guide us
As another new year starts
And may the spirit of Christmas
Be always in our hearts.
In every prayer and every song
The community unites
Celebrating the birth
Of our Savior Jesus Christ
Let love, like that starlight
On that first Christmas morn,
Lead us back to the manger
Where Christ the child was born.
(Refrain chords)
So come let us rejoice
Come and sing a Christmas carol
With one big joyful voice
Proclaim the name of the Lord!
(Repeat Chorus)
(Repeat Chorus moving chords to F#)
JINGLE BELLS
Dashing thru the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh
Over the fields we go, laughing all the way
Bells on bob-tail ring, making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight. Oh
Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Jingle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Jingle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
A day or two ago, I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright, was seated by my side
The horse was lean and lank, misfortune seemed his lot
He got into a drifted bank
And so we got upset
Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Jingle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Jingle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
Now the ground in white, go it while you're still young
Take the girls tonight, and sing this sleighing song
Just get a bob-tailed bay, two forty for his speed
Then hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack you'll take the lead
Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Jingle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Jingle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
SILENT NIGHT
Silent night, holy night,
All is calm, all is bright,
Round yon virgin mother and child,
Holy infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight.
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia,
Christ the Savior is born!
Christ the Savior is born.
Silent night, holy night!
Son of God love's pure light.
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth.
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth.
JINGLE BELL ROCK
Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell Rock
Jingle bell swing & jingle bell ring
Snowing & blowing up bushel of fun
Now the jingle hearts began
Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell Rock
Jingle bell chime & jingle bell time
Dancing and prancing in jingle bell square
In the frosty air
Wow! The bright time is in the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go gliding in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy up - jingle horse pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and mingle in a jingling beat
That's the jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE XMAS
Have yourself a Merry little Christmas
Let your hearts be light
From now on, our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on, our troubles will be miles away
Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more
Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now
HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING
Hark! the herald angels sing,
"Glory to the new-born King;
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!"
Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With the angelic host proclaim,
"Christ is born in Bethlehem!"
Hark! the herald angels sing,
"Glory to the new-born King!"
Christ, by highest heaven adored:
Christ, the ever-lasting Lord!
Late in time behold him come,
Off-spring of the virgin's womb.
Veiled in flesh the God-head see;
Hail the incarnate Deity;
Pleased as man with men to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel.
Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings,
Mild he lays his glory by,
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS
I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath the mistletoe last night
She didn't see me creep
Down the stairs to have a peep
She thought that I was tucked up in my bedroom fast asleep
Then I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath his beard so snowy white
Oh, what a laugh it would have been
If Daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSE REINDEER
You know Dasher, and Dancer, and
Prancer, and Vixen,
Comet, and Cupid, and
Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose
and if you ever saw it
you would even say it glows.
All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
play in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!
JOY TO THE WORLD
Joy to the world, the Lord is come
Let earth receive her King
Let every heart prepare Him room
And heav'n and nature sing
And heav'n and nature sing
And heav'n and heav'n and nature sing
Joy to the world, the Saviour reigns
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods
Rocks Hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy
No more let sin and sorrow grow
Not thorns infest the ground
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found
Far as the curse is found
Far as, far as the curse is found
He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders, and wonders of his love
THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
A partridge in a pear tree.
On the second day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the third day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the fourth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the fifth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the sixth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Six geese-a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the seventh day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Seven swans-a-swimming,
Six geese-a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the eighth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans-a-swimming,
Six geese-a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the ninth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans-a-swimming,
Six geese-a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the tenth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Ten lords-a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans-a-swimming,
Six geese-a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the eleventh day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords-a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans-a-swimming,
Six geese-a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords-a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans-a-swimming,
Six geese-a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.