Mine by far is John Rutter's "The Angel Carol" - it is a really gorgeous piece with lovely arpeggios and harmonies and we did it at our school's advent service every year.

Listen here (http://www.geocities.com/madmazda86/angelcarolharp.mid)

I would have to say O Holy Night. It's really pretty and I learned how to sing it from choir ^^.

Breath of Heaven has always been my favorite.

Too bad I don't know who it's written by. :sweatdrop:

hmmmmm, i don't reeeeeeeally have a favourite, i like most of them though

well, I may as well go with the traditionals and say probably away in a manger. But I love most of the chrissy carols. But not ther versions they play at the shopping centres, which seem to be the slowest, most bering and WORST versions!!

Ooo, there's a gorgeous descant for Away in a Manger - we sung it at school and it sounded really nice. Lots of great choices by people - O Holy Night is another of my faves, even if only for the memories of my bro singing it on stage in a clown costume :lol:

I don't remember the names of the carols anymore (it's been a year!) . . but just the other day, my old choir director called me (long-distance), asking me to help out, sooo . . I'll tell you guys in about two weeks what my favourite songs are =)

My favorite one is Carol of the Bells. Not very original. :sweatdrop:

Hark the herald,
coz i can sing the harmony from memory and play it on flute

"Do You Hear What I hear?" Kewl song, I liked it.

hmm i like
"O Come All Ye Faithful"
"Angels We have Heard on High"

I especially like playing them on my viola

Originally posted by dying1004@Dec 7 2004, 04:04 AM

"Angels We have Heard on High"
angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o'er the plains?

heh, we're singing that for school's music fests.

i like carol of the bells too, but mostly because during our performance, our vocal/jazz/piano teacher turned it into some kinda blues jam with the rest of the instrumentalists :lol:

I don't really have a favorite carol. I tend to prefer listening to Handel's "Messiah" or Bach's "Christmas Oratorio". I'm also partial to "Rudolph, The Red-nosed Reindeer", but haven't heard a decent arrangement in ages...

go Alvin and the Chipmunks~! :lol:

Christmas don't be late!....i just want a hoola hoop! :D

LOL, I have a psychopathic chipmunk version of Frosty the Snowman on one of my CDs:

"FrostytheSnowmanhappyhappysnowmanhahahahahahahaha"

*shivers* Disturbingness :blink:

PFT_Shadow, you play flute too? Yay! ^_^ (I haven't met a lot of flute players on the site. :mellow: ) I like "Hark! The Herald Angels" too. I have part of it on sheet music.

Musically and textually, O Holy Night is my favorite.
Next musically is What Child is This and Angels We Have Heard on High.
Then textually I love Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Not that Mendelssohn did a bad job on the music, but the text is SO good. The music is still great.

I like Silent Night, it's so very peaceful. It reminds me of Christmas trees and snow and such... *sigh*

Hark the herald angels sing can burn in hell... lol I am in the church choir and the bass part in that is freaking hard.
so i will say O Holy night, or angel's we have heard on high (which both have cool bass parts XD)

LOL, lots of people going for O Holy Night - it is a lovely carol, innit?

i love Winter Wonderland and White christmas

Heck yeah! O Holy Night is just the most beautiful thing ever. I mean the music is just splendid, and then you have the lyrics. The first verse doesn't do much for me. But the second and third! Oh, the second and third.
"The King of kings lay thus in lowly manger/ In all our trials born to be our friend/ He knows our needs/ To our weeknesses-no stranger..."

"Truly he taught us to love one another/ His law is love and his gospel is peace./ Chains shall he break for the slave is our brother/ and in his name all oppression shall cease."

lol, haven't heard half of the ones listed above :heh: but I do like "Let it snow" very much!

"Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"
:lol:

Hmm, would that still be considered a carol? :heh: Imagine carolers singing those types of songs as they go up to the houses XD . . *shrugs* I still love it, especially when sung by Frank Sinatra ^^

And "O Holy Night" is one of my favourites as well =) . . I like it when the soloist can sing the high note near the end (depending on the version).

Diiii... VIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE Oooo Night... XD

have a patrick swayze christmas

open up your heart and let the patrick swayze christmas in.
we'll gather at the roadhouse with our next of kin.
and Santa can be our regular saturday night thing.
we'll decorate our barstools and gather round and sing.

oh, let's have a patrick swayze christmas this year!
or we'll tear your throat out and kick you in the ear!

it's my way or the highway, this christmas at my ba-ha-har.
I'll have to smash your kneecaps if you bastards touch my car!
I got the word that santa has been stealing from the till.
I think that that right jolly old elf better make out his will, ohh,

oh, let's have a patrick swayze christmas, one and all.
and this can be the haziest...
this can be the laziest...
this can be the Swayziest
christmas of them all!

i dunno if this is a carol.. but i like 'mary did u kno'
nice song...

Away in a manger, I guess

Okay, I have my list now:

O Holy Night (that's a given!)
Carol of the Bells
Angels We Have Heard On High (love the chorus)
Panis Angelicus (love it! the duet is amazing!)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Home Alone anyone?)
I'll Be Home For Christmas (I'm home now!)
We Three Kings
I Heard the Bels on Christmas Day
Coventry Carol
O Little Town of Bethlehem
A Holly Jolly Christmas (fun fun)
Feliz Navidad

Originally posted by Zero@Dec 8 2004, 10:50 AM
lol, haven't heard half of the ones listed above :heh: but I do like "Let it snow" very much!
i cant listen to that song without the alternative lyrics

"oh the weather outside was whitening
till the dog did something frightning
hes got no other place to go,
yellow snow, yellow snow, yellow snow"

Hmm, mine would be I'll be Home for Christmas..it was written in world war II...that really gives it alot of meaning. :)

But i like the first Noel toO !There's a descant part of the chorus that's really goose-bumpy. ^_^ And Rudolph & Frosty the Snowman are just such cute songs ! :P

WHITE CHRISTMAS!!!
but..christmas is over now..so..yea..

I love Jingle bell rock, it's stuck in my head after watching mean girls @_@

Its a little late now, but I made a list

WHAT SWEETER MUSIC (John Rutter) ~ Beautiful Lyrics, Captivating melody, and I get to sing it in choir for contest coming up!

DECK THE HALLS (Wiccan Carol) ~ Painfully catchy and has several good arrangements, however, putting it in Mixolydian (Major with lowered 7th) sounds gross.

CANDLELIGHT CAROL (John Rutter) ~ Simply beautiful, it has five part a cappela chorus which is simply masterful.

CAROL OF THE BELLS (Leontovich) ~ A simple classic, much better when sung in the eight part ukrainian version.

I can't think of anything else

I think this thread deserves to be bumped back up =)

Haha, I know ALL of these carols XD Singing in a professional Trebel Chior has it's fun perks ^_^ Lemme see, favorite carols:

EVERYTHING in Benjamen Britten's: "Ceremony of Carols" eventhough they're all arranged from old tradtional carols...

"Personent Hodie" by John Rutter I believe O_o;;

"Carol of The Bells", both versions that I've heard (Yes, it's the same melody, just different lyrics...)

And several other Carols that I'm too lazy to mention XD