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Songs of Christmas : from the Alan Lomax collection

Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: CD 1719 | RounderSeries: The Alan Lomax collectionPublication details: Rounder, 1998.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s):
Contents:
1. Entrance of Father Christmas / from the Symondsbury mummer's play -- 2. The twelve days of Christmas / Bob & Ron Copper -- 3. Christmas rhyme / Ewan MacColl -- 4. The motion tune / Red Ants -- 5. Mari Lywd ceremony / David Thomas & party -- 6. Midwinter horn solo / unknown Dutch player -- 7. Aguinaldo / Valencia, Spain buskers (Jose Caldez, Juan Martoell, Jose Arrandia, Antonio Riurtos) -- 8. Tu scendi dalle stelle / Caggiano pipers -- 9. A warm drink for the baby / Seamus Ennis -- 10. Taladh an leinibh losa (Christ child lullaby) / Scottish crofter group -- 11. No room at the inn; Last month of the year / Vera Ward Hall -- 12. Venite adoremus / unidentified group, Abruzzi, Italy -- 13. Tan tan / Manuela Morena -- 14. Shepherds arise / Bob & Ron Copper -- 15. La sils du roi de gloire / Trinidadian cantique singers -- 16. Sherburne / Sacred Harp singers -- 17. Caramiles / local group, Ibiza, Spain -- 18. Exit tune from midnight mass / local group, Ibiza, Spain -- 19. Las doce por la virgen / Julio Ramos Polo -- 20. Rumanian midwinter carol / local group, Hunedoara , Rumania -- 21. Singing the travels / Tom Eveleigh -- 22. The Gower wassail song / Charley Bate -- 23. Mari Lywd description & farewell verse / Margaretta Thomas -- 24. Walk Billy Abbot / Georgia Sea Island Singers -- 25. O day / Georgia Sea Island Singers -- 26. Conch shell horn on New Year's Eve in Postano, Italy -- 27. New Year's Day tarentella / Pitupu Band of Capri -- 28. Capo d'anno / Ponit Langarino Group -- 29. Bon Nouvelle / Trinidadian cantique singers -- 30. Breaking up Christmas / Norman Edmunds -- 31. Conclusion of Symondsbury mummer's play.

Compact disc.

Musical instruments: fife, flute, horn, baritone horn, clarinet, palmi zampogna, ciaromolla, bagpipe; Chac chac, tambourine, castanets, espadin (swordblade); ximbomba (friction drum), duba, tabor; banjo, fiddle,guitar.

1. Entrance of Father Christmas / from the Symondsbury mummer's play -- 2. The twelve days of Christmas / Bob & Ron Copper -- 3. Christmas rhyme / Ewan MacColl -- 4. The motion tune / Red Ants -- 5. Mari Lywd ceremony / David Thomas & party -- 6. Midwinter horn solo / unknown Dutch player -- 7. Aguinaldo / Valencia, Spain buskers (Jose Caldez, Juan Martoell, Jose Arrandia, Antonio Riurtos) -- 8. Tu scendi dalle stelle / Caggiano pipers -- 9. A warm drink for the baby / Seamus Ennis -- 10. Taladh an leinibh losa (Christ child lullaby) / Scottish crofter group -- 11. No room at the inn; Last month of the year / Vera Ward Hall -- 12. Venite adoremus / unidentified group, Abruzzi, Italy -- 13. Tan tan / Manuela Morena -- 14. Shepherds arise / Bob & Ron Copper -- 15. La sils du roi de gloire / Trinidadian cantique singers -- 16. Sherburne / Sacred Harp singers -- 17. Caramiles / local group, Ibiza, Spain -- 18. Exit tune from midnight mass / local group, Ibiza, Spain -- 19. Las doce por la virgen / Julio Ramos Polo -- 20. Rumanian midwinter carol / local group, Hunedoara , Rumania -- 21. Singing the travels / Tom Eveleigh -- 22. The Gower wassail song / Charley Bate -- 23. Mari Lywd description & farewell verse / Margaretta Thomas -- 24. Walk Billy Abbot / Georgia Sea Island Singers -- 25. O day / Georgia Sea Island Singers -- 26. Conch shell horn on New Year's Eve in Postano, Italy -- 27. New Year's Day tarentella / Pitupu Band of Capri -- 28. Capo d'anno / Ponit Langarino Group -- 29. Bon Nouvelle / Trinidadian cantique singers -- 30. Breaking up Christmas / Norman Edmunds -- 31. Conclusion of Symondsbury mummer's play.

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