Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax collection

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Location	Collection	Call #
CLP - Main Library	Second Floor Film & Audio--Music CD	COMPACT DISC Ho Son 35705
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Second Floor Film & Audio--Music CD
Call Number	COMPACT DISC Ho Son 35705

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Contents

Entrance of Father Christmas : from the Symondsbury Mummer's play (Symondsbury Mummers) (:58)
The twelve days of Christmas (Bob & Ron Copper) (2:20)
Christmas rhyme (Ewan MacColl) (:21)
The motion tune (Red Ants) (2:13)
Mari Lywd ceremony (David Thomas & party) (1:17)
Midwinter horn solo (unknown Dutch player) (:40)
Aguinaldo (Valencia, Spain buskers) (2:40)
Tu scendi dalle stelle (Caggiano pipers) (3:54)
A warm drink for the baby (Seamus Ennis) (2:08)
Taladh an leinibh losa (Scottish crofter group) (1:10)
No room at the inn ; Last month of the year (Vera Ward Hall) (8:55)
Venite adoremus (unidentified priest, Abruzzi, Italy) (1:40)
Tan tan (Manuela Morena) (2:06)
Shepherds arise (Bob & Ron Copper) (2:23)
La fils du roi de gloire (Trinidadian cantique singers) (3:55)
Sherburne (Sacred harp singers) (1:43)
Caramiles (1:17) ; Exit tune from Midnight Mass (:49) (local group, Ibiza, Spain)
Las doce por la virgen (Julio Ramos Polo) (3:00)
Rumanian midwinter carol (local group, Hunedoara, Rumania) (:56)
Singing the travels (Tom Everleigh) (1:07)
The Gower wassail song (Charley Bate) (2:40)
Mari Lywd description & farewell verse (Margaretta Thomas) (1:08)
Walk Billy Abbot (1:22) ; O day (2:12) (Georgia Island Sea Singers) (1:22)
Conch shell horn on New Year's Eve in Positano, Italy (:55)
New Year's Day tarentella [i.e. New Year's Day tarantella] (Putipu Band of Capri) (1:45)
Capo d'anno (Ponte Langarino group) (5:10)
Bon nouvelle (Trinidadian cantique singers) (3:53)
Breaking up Christmas (Norman Edmonds) (1:56)
Conclusion of Symondsbury Mummer's play (:09).

Additional Information

Subjects	Christmas music. Folk music. Field recordings.
Publisher	Cambridge, Mass. :Rounder,1998
Other Titles	Songs of Christmas
Contributors	Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.
Participants/Performers	Various performers.
Language	English Multiple
Notes	Previously released material. Compact disc. Program notes by Matthew Barton and Ellen Harold, and texts with English translations ([40] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Description	1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Other	Classic View