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PART 1: COMPOSED CAROLS

• THE MIDDLE AGES

• Verbum supernum, prodiens/High Word of God, Eternal Light

• Veni, Redemptor gencium/Come, thou Redeemer of the earth

• Christe, Redemptor omnium/O Christ, the Father's only son

• A solis ortus cardine/From lands that see the sun arise

• Letabundus/Come rejoicing

• Festa dies agitur

• Dieus soit en cheste maison

• Angelus ad Virginem/Gabriel, fram Heven-King

• Procedenti Puero-Eya!/Verbum caro factum est-Eya! novus annus est

• Ad cantus leticie

• Laudemus cum armonia

• Verbum caro factum est: Dies est leticie

• Verbum caro factum est: In hoc anni circulo

• Verbum Patris hodie

• Verbum Patris umanatur

• Veni, veni, Emanuel/O Come, O Come, Emmanuel!

• Qui creavit celum/He who made the earth so fair (Song of the Nuns of Chester)

• Dies est laeticiae/Earth with joy this day doth ring

• Corde natus ex Parentis/Of the Father's heart begotten

• Personent hodie/On this day earth shall ring

• Puer nobis nascitur/Unto us is born a Son

• Omnis mundus iucundetur

• ENGLISH CAROLS 1400-1700

• Lullay, lullay: Als I lay on Yoolis Night

• Lullay, Lullow: I Saw a Swete Semly Syght

• Nova! nova!

• Nowell: Tydynges trew ther be cum new

• Hayl, Mary, ful of grace

• Ther is no rose of swych vertu

• Alleluya pro Virgine Maria

• Alleluya: A nywe werk is come on honde

• Make we joye nowe in this fest

• What tydynges bryngest thou, Messangere?

• Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse

• Nowel syng we bothe al and som

• Synge we to this mery cumpane

• Nowell: Dieus wous garde, byewsser

• Nowell: The borys hede (The Exeter Boar's Head Carol)

• Marvele noght, Josep

• Thys endere nyghth I saw a syghth

• Lully, lulla, thow littel tyne child (The Coventry Carol)

• As I out rode this enderes night (The Coventry Shepherds' Carol)

• We happy hirdes men

• Come, love we God!

• Swete was the song the Virgine soong

• Thus angels sung (The Angels' Song)

• While shepherds watched their flocks by night

• O remember Adam's fall/Remember, O thou man

• EUROPEAN CAROLS 1550-1700

• Riu, riu, chiu

• Verbum caro factum est: Y la Virgen le dezia

• E la don, don Verges Maria

• Gaudete!

• Psallite Unigenito

• En! Natus est Emanuel - Lo! born is our Emmanuel

• Puer natus in Bethlehem - A Boy is born in Bethlehem - Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem