Sentence examples for English carol from inspiring English sources
The English carol counts the 12 days of Christmas.
During the golden age of the English carol (c. 1350 1550), most carols could be defined by the burden-verse form.
A combination of left-field carols and standards, highlights were Calexico's sombre version of the English carol "Green Grows the Holly", and the seductive harmonising of Wainwright and Sharon Van Etten on "Baby, It's Cold Outside".
Similar forms can be found in most of the literatures of medieval and early Renaissance Europe: in the Galician cantiga, the Arabic muwashshaḥ, the Italian lauda and frottola, the Spanish villancico, and the English carol, as well as in the Arabic zajal and the Italian hallata.
Similar forms can be found in most of the literatures of medieval and early Renaissance Europe: in the Galician cantiga, the Arabic muwashshaḥ, the Italian lauda and frottola, the Spanish villancico, and the English carol (qq.v ., as well as in the Arabic zajal and the Italian hallata.
The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be". On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century.
VOCAL events usually overshadow other performances as the holidays approach, and so they do this week, beginning today at 2 with the traditional English carols that prevail during the Nebraska Theater Caravan's edition of "A Christmas Carol" at the Shubert in New Haven.
The composer was drawn to the singers' sweetly modal harmonies and clear kinship to medieval English carols.
The next section featured anonymous 15th-century English carols, including the harmonically rich "Hail Mary Full of Grace".
The carvels differ from English carols because they take as their subject not so much the Nativity as the life of Jesus, his crucifixion, and the Last Judgment.
And at the end, Kate joined the group to play banjo and to join in somber old English carols that were as much about mortality as celebration.
