"Silent Night" () is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song has been recorded by many singers across many music genres. The version sung by Bing Crosby in 1935 is the fourth best-selling single of all-time.
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"Silent Night" () is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song has been recorded by many singers across many music genres. The version sung by Bing Crosby in 1935 is the fourth best-selling single of all-time.
Silent Night | Introduction
"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. Silent Night(s) may also refer to:
Silent Night (disambiguation) | Introduction
The family then waits on the front lawn and joins together in singing "Silent Night" when cousin David flips the breaker that brings the lights back on.
Merry Christmas from the Family | The song
In 1818, Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, the church organ fails on Christmas Eve. The assistant priest Joseph Mohr and the church organist Franz Gruber writes the Christmas carol "Silent Night" which they and the church choir later perform at church accompanied by Mohr playing the guitar.
Silent Mouse | Plot
Finally, the best-known Christmas songs, "Silent Night" is proposed in an exciting and evocative key jazz ballad.
Piccola Strenna | Introduction
"" was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. A young priest, Father Joseph Mohr, had come to Oberndorf the year before. He had written the lyrics of the song "" in 1816 at Mariapfarr, the hometown of his father in the Salzburg Lungau region, where Joseph had worked as a co-. The melody was composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, schoolmaster and organist in the nearby village of Arnsdorf. Before Christmas Eve, Mohr brought the words to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for the Christmas Eve mass, after river flooding had damaged the church organ.
Silent Night | History
In 1816 he took on the additional responsibilities of organist and choirmaster at St Nicholas Church in the neighboring village of Oberndorf bei Salzburg. Together with Joseph Mohr, a Catholic priest who wrote the original German lyrics, Gruber composed the music for the Christmas carol "Silent Night". On Christmas Eve of 1818, Mohr, an assistant pastor at St Nicholas, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to set the poem to music. The church organ had broken down so Gruber produced a melody with guitar arrangement for the poem. The two men sang "Stille Nacht" for the first time at Christmas Mass in St Nicholas Church while Mohr played guitar and the choir repeated the last two lines of each verse.
Franz Xaver Gruber | "Silent Night"
Josephus Franciscus Mohr, sometimes spelled Josef (11 December 1792 – 4 December 1848) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night."
Joseph Mohr | Introduction
For a long time many thought that Silent Night was written by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven. In later years, Gruber composed additional arrangements of the carol for organ and for organ with orchestra, as well as scores of other carols and masses, many of which are still in print and sung today in Austrian churches.
Franz Xaver Gruber | "Silent Night"
Young is well known for being the one who translated the famous German Christmas carol Silent Night into English in 1859. He wrote and published the English translation that is most frequently sung today, translated from three of Joseph Mohr original six verses, in a 16-page pamphlet titled Carols For Christmas Tide. The pamphlet also included other carols, like Earth Today Rejoices, Good Christian Men Rejoice, Here Is Joy For Every Age, Earthly Friends Will Change And Falter, Royal Day That Chasest Gloom, and Good King Wenceslas.
John F. Young | Silent Night
Cummings to fit Wesley's words. This combination first appeared in "Hymns Ancient and Modern" in 1861. "Silent Night" comes from Austria. The carol was first performed in the Nikolaus-Kirche (Church of St. Nicholas) in Oberndorf, Austria on 24 December 1818. Mohr had composed the words much earlier, in 1816, but on Christmas Eve brought them to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for the church service. The first English translation was in 1871 where it was published in a Methodist hymnal.
Christmas carol | Church and liturgical use
The church was eventually destroyed by repeated flooding and replaced with the Silent-Night-Chapel. It is unknown what inspired Mohr to write the lyrics, or what prompted him to create a new carol. According to Gruber, Karl Mauracher, an organ builder who serviced the instrument at the Obendorf church, was enamoured with the song, and took the composition home with him to the Zillertal. From there, two travelling families of folk singers, the Strassers and the Rainers, included the tune in their shows. The Rainers were already singing it around Christmas 1819, and once performed it for an audience that included Franz I of Austria and Alexander I of Russia, as well as making the first performance of the song in the U.S., in New York City in 1839.
Silent Night | History
The song was sung at Midnight Mass in a simple arrangement for guitar and choir. Various legends have sprung up over the years concerning the genesis of "Silent Night", but the simplest and likeliest explanation seems to have been that Mohr simply wanted an original song that he could play on his favourite instrument, the guitar. Within a few years, arrangements of the carol appeared in churches in the Salzburg Archdiocese and folk singers from the Ziller Valley were taking the composition on tours around Europe.
Joseph Mohr | "Stille Nacht"
Max Reger quotes the tune in the Christmas section of his organ pieces "Sieben Stücke", Op. 145. Alfred Schnittke composed an arrangement of "Stille Nacht" for violin and piano in 1978, as a holiday greeting for violinist Gidon Kremer. Due to its dissonant and nightmarish character, the miniature caused a scandal in Austria.
Silent Night | Musical settings
Later, in the evening, Anna and Nikolaus perform for the Kronprinz. Nikolaus has to return to the front, and Anna follows him. At night, a French soldier moves out with some grenades to infiltrate the German line. Some Scottish soldiers start singing. Nikolaus responds with a Christmas song ("Silent Night"), soon the Scottish bagpiper starts to accompany him, and Nikolaus raises a Christmas tree on the bunker. The Christmas truce starts as the lieutenants agree to stop fighting until the morning. The soldiers come out and the French soldier returns without using his grenades. The soldiers intermingle, talk, and exchange provisions.
Silent Night (opera) | Act 1
Pastor Mohr (with a little help from the bell-ringer Otto) writes the lyrics for a song and the next morning he brings it to Gruber, asking him to compose a melody for the lyrics. With some inspiration from his wife, Gruber sets music to Mohr's words. At church Gruber and Mohr presents "Silent Night" performed a cappella by the choir.
Silent Night, Holy Night (1976 film) | Plot
"The Winter Song" was written, arranged, and produced by members of Eisley. "O Holy Night", based on a poem by Placide Cappeau, was composed by Adolphe Adam and translated by John Sullivan Dwight. The song is performed by Avril Lavigne and Chantal Kreviazuk. Kreviazuk also produced the track. "Silent Night", performed by Lisa Hannigan, was originally recorded by Damien Rice for his 2002 studio album "O". The song is less than two minutes in length and features original lyrics. The band Rilo Kiley contributed "Xmas Cake", a song originally written by group members Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett. The track was produced and mixed by Mike Mogis and features "jazzy guitar chords and a piano-led wintery feel" to address poverty and conflict.
Maybe This Christmas Too? | Background and composition
Silent Night: A Christmas in Rome is a 1998 Christmas live album by Paddy Moloney and The Chieftains. Almost each track features a different female/male guest artist or a group/choir. Artists featured on this album are Maire Brennan, Montserrat Caballe, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Zucchero and Carlos Nunez.
Silent Night: A Christmas in Rome | Introduction
Anna appears. Father Palmer conducts a mass. Anna sings of peace. Jonathan, however, finds the body of his brother and vows to take revenge.
Silent Night (opera) | Act 1
The Silent Night Chapel () is located in the town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol "Silent Night" and its librettist, Joseph Mohr and its composer, Franz Xaver Gruber. It stands on the site of the former St. Nicholas's Church, where on December 24, 1818, the Christmas carol was performed for the first time.
Silent-Night-Chapel | Introduction
December 23, 1914: An attack by French and Scottish soldiers on the German line fails. Nikolaus stabs a man and despairs at the violence. William is shot and dies. In the bunker later, the soldiers are shocked by the slaughter. December 24, 1914: In the morning, little Christmas trees are delivered to the German soldiers, a gift of the Kronprinz who is camping in a chalet nearby. Nikolaus is ordered to sing for him later and looks forward to reunite with Anna at that occasion. The French soldiers receive wine, sausages, and chocolates. The Scottish soldiers get crates of whiskey.
Silent Night (opera) | Act 1
During a choir practice two days before Christmas, village organist Franz Gruber is worried to hear unusual sounds from the church organ and suspects the bellows. One of Gruber's sons discovers mice in the pipes of the organ and the mice have chewed up parts of the organ. Without the organ the church choir cannot perform the rehearsed Bach piece because the music was written to be performed with an organ. Accompanied by both his sons, Gruber travels to Salzburg, hoping to buy spare parts and then mend the organ when returning to the village. The party is caught in a snow storm and the spare part is lost on the way home but pastor Joseph Mohr is simply thankful they are unharmed.
Silent Night, Holy Night (1976 film) | Plot
Several theatrical and television films depict how the song was ostensibly written. Most of them however are based on a spurious legend about the organ breaking down at the church in Oberndorf, which appeared in a fictional story published in the U.S. in the 1930s.
Silent Night | In film
"7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their third studio album, "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" (1966). The track is sound collage juxtaposing a rendition of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" with a simulated "7 O'Clock News" bulletin consisting of actual events from the summer of 1966.
7 O'Clock News/Silent Night | Introduction
John Freeman Young (October 30, 1820 – November 15, 1885), composer of the lyrics to the English-language version of the Christmas hymn Silent Night, became the second bishop of Florida in 1867.
John F. Young | Introduction
Durbin sings the songs "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" by Frank Loesser and "Always" by Irving Berlin. There are also excerpts from Tristan und Isolde (Liebestod) by Richard Wagner, "Silent Night, Holy Night" by Franz Xaver Gruber, and Latin chant for the Midnight Mass scene (which was footage of an actual Tridentine Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana).
Christmas Holiday | Soundtrack
By the 1840s the song was well known in Lower Saxony and was reported to be a favourite of Frederick William IV of Prussia. During this period, the melody changed slightly to become the version that is commonly played today.
Silent Night | History
Instead of snow you have colours.” "Silent Night" includes a verse in her native indigenous language and "Island Christmas" is about Christmas Day in the Dreamtime.
Island Christmas | Background and release
At 17:00 (5:00 p.m.) every December 24, a solemn memorial mass is held at the church and guests thrill to the experience of hearing the famous carol sung in their many languages. Since 2002, this celebration has been transmitted by means of the local webcam on the Internet.
Silent-Night-Chapel | History
Pastor Josef Mohr shows his poem to the local church organist Franz Gruber and Gruber composes music to the lyrics resulting in "Silent Night".
The Legend of Silent Night | Plot
The original CD cover is featured on the DVD menu.
Not So Silent Night ... Christmas with REO Speedwagon | Introduction
Later on, the melody Chauncey has been playing repeatedly on his violin inspires the organist. Father Joseph, who has written a poem, uses the melody to compose "Silent Night" and perform it for the first time. The Queen then offers to take Christina to Vienna and Christina says goodbye to her new friends, Buster and Chauncey.
Buster &amp; Chauncey's Silent Night | Synopsis
"A Song And A Christmas Tree" began as "The Twelve Days of Christmas", which was first published in 1780. "Stille Nacht", which was later translated into "Silent Night", was first performed during Midnight Mass on Christmas in 1818 in Austria. "The First Noël" debuted in print in 1833. "O Holy Night", with music by Adolphe Adam, originated in French as "Cantique de Noël" in 1847. The song that came to be known as "Jingle Bells" was published under the name "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in 1857. The earliest printing of the lyrics to "Away In A Manger" dates back to 1885.
The Andy Williams Christmas Album | Song information
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Home for Christmas (2010 film) | Silent Night (in thai language)
"O Holy Night" (also known as ) is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem (Midnight, Christians) by poet Placide Cappeau (1808–1877). The carol reflects on the birth of Jesus as humanity's redemption.
O Holy Night | Introduction
In crowd going round carol-singing the smith again meets Oksana who repeats the promise apropos the cherevichks. From Vakul's grief it decides to be drowned, throws all bags, except the smallest, and runs away.
The Night Before Christmas (1951 film) | Plot
Summer, 1914: At a Berlin opera house the performance is disrupted by the announcement of war. The life and career of the singers Anna Sørensen and Nikolaus Sprink changes, as Nikolaus has to go to war. In Scotland, William urges his younger brother Jonathan to enlist. In Paris, pregnant Madeleine is angry as her husband Audebert departs for war.
Silent Night (opera) | Prologue
A Not So Silent Night is the fourth studio and first Christmas album from Australian vocal group The Ten Tenors, released in November 2001. The album peaked at number 94 on the ARIA Charts in December 2001, becoming the group's first album to chart within the Australian top 100.
A Not So Silent Night | Introduction
The next week the song dropped from number 1 to number 16 in the chart.
A Very Silent Night | Introduction
"Wsród nocnej ciszy" (Polish for "In the midst of night's quiet") is a popular Polish Christmas carol from the turn of 18th and 19th centuries. The Australian poet, Peter Skrzynecki, has a poem titled "Wśród nocnej ciszy" (p. 102 of his "Old World/New World" anthology), which puts forward the idea that sometimes the real meaning of Christmas is lost, amongst our many Christmas cultural traditions.
Wśród nocnej ciszy | Introduction
"A Silent Night with You" was met with mixed reviews, but the five original compositions on the album as a whole were met with enthusiasm by critics, who felt that they were a welcome addition to the traditional material, and that the quality and production made for a seamless experience. Drowned In Sound's review stated that "once you get past the cringe-worthy opening ... the song itself is a romantic account of second chances at the holidays". The review from PopMatters deemed "A Silent Night with You" to be the weaker of the five original compositions, but went on to say that the others "more than make up for it", calling special attention to the track Winter's Carol as a masterpiece, a sentiment Consequence of Sound's reviewer agreed upon.
A Silent Night with You | Critical reception
In 1859, the Episcopal priest John Freeman Young, then serving at Trinity Church, New York City, wrote and published the English translation that is most frequently sung today, translated from three of Mohr's original six verses. The version of the melody that is generally used today is a slow, meditative lullaby or pastorale, differing slightly (particularly in the final strain) from Gruber's original, which was a "moderato" tune in time and siciliana rhythm. Today, the lyrics and melody are in the public domain, although newer translations usually are not. In 1998 the Silent Night Museum in Salzburg commissioned a new English translation by Bettina Klein of Mohr's German lyrics.
Silent Night | Translations
In chapter five of his 1962 novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes", Ray Bradbury describes this carol as "immensely moving, overwhelming, no matter what day or what month it was sung." The carol provides an ironic contrast to the evil that Mr. Dark's carnival is about to bring to Green Town, Illinois. In the 1983 film adaptation of the novel, Mr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) and Charles Halloway (Jason Robards) both quote passages from the carol when they meet in the town's library (though Dark ominously states that "it's a thousand years to Christmas").
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day | Musical renditions
Christmas Music is a compilation album of phonograph records put together for the Christmas season by Decca Records in late 1940. The album features the most popular artists recording for Decca such as: Bing Crosby, Kenny Baker, Men About Town and Eddie Dunstedter. It features Bing Crosby's first commercial release of "Silent Night", the 1942 version of which went on to sell 30 million copies.
Christmas Music (album) | Introduction
O Holy Night is a Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847. O Holy Night may also refer to:
O Holy Night (disambiguation) | Introduction
Christmas Night (subtitled Carols of the Nativity) is a Christmas-themed album by The Cambridge Singers conducted by John Rutter. Most songs are sung a cappella, on others the choir is accompanied by The City of London Sinfonia. It was first released in 1987 on Rutter’s label Collegium Records.
Christmas Night | Introduction
Acoustic Christmas Carols – Cowboy Christmas II is the twenty-second album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey and his second album of Christmas music. Recorded at St. James Episcopal Church in Taos, New Mexico, the church Murphey attended at the time, the album consists of carols from the nineteenth century or earlier played on acoustic instruments, among them "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World". Murphey's arrangements feature his own finger-picked guitar, accompanied by John McEuen on banjo or mandolin, or Paul Sadler on hammer dulcimer. Murphey's sons, Ryan and Brennan, play blues guitar licks on "Go Tell It on the Mountain", and his daughter, Laura, sings a duet with her father on "Silent Night".
Acoustic Christmas Carols | Introduction
In all of their other collaborations, Chapman is only credited as a producer, while Swift and sometimes other songwriters are credited. Swift covered "Santa Baby", a 1953 song originally performed by Eartha Kitt. "Silent Night" is a Christmas carol cover that is musically performed differently, replacing the instrumentation from piano to acoustic guitar; Swift's vocals are also faster than traditionally recorded for the song. "Christmas Must Be Something More" is the second original song from "The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection", self-penned by Swift. The lyrics attempt for audiences to recognize the reason for the celebration of Christmas, the commemoration of Jesus Christ's birth.
The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection | Background and composition
Following is a string of original songs, including "Bizarre Christmas Incident" by Ben Folds, "What a Year for a New Year" by Dan Wilson and Neil Finn's "Sweet Secret Peace". "Winter Wonderland," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Bizarre Christmas Incident" were recorded previously for fans but had not been released commercially. The closing track, "Snow" (Archibald Lampman, Loreena McKennitt) was performed by McKennitt and has been described as a "haunting, orchestral new-age hymn that could fit nicely into a midnight Mass."
Maybe This Christmas | Background and composition
"Acoustic Hearts of Winter" is musically based on Christmas music with pop, pop rock and teen pop inclinations. All songs were produced by Antonina Armato and Tim James. Aly & AJ, along with executive producers Armato and James, adapted and arranged most of the cover songs on the album. Many of the songs incorporate heavy instrumentation, such as guitar, cello, percussion, bass, and piano. The album is mainly composed of cover versions of Christmas carols and contemporary holiday classics, while two original numbers are included. "Joy to the World", "We Three Kings", "The First Noel", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and "Silent Night" are religious traditional carols.
Acoustic Hearts of Winter | Composition
Christmas and New Year texts were associated with the tune from as early as 1686, and by the 19th century almost every printed collection of Christmas carols included some version of words and music together, most of them ending with the refrain "On Christmas Day in the morning". One of the most popular of these is "What Child Is This?", written in 1865 by William Chatterton Dix.
Greensleeves | Alternative lyrics
Nikolaus and Anna ask the French for asylum. December 26, 1914: The British Major punishes the Scottish soldiers by transferring them to the front lines. On his order, Jonathan shoots a German soldier crossing the battlefield. The soldier is actually the Frenchman, Ponchel, in a German uniform who was disguised to cross the lines and visit his mother. The French General orders Audebert to Verdun and disbands his unit. The Kronprinz transfers the German soldiers to Pomerania. The no-man's land is empty at the end.
Silent Night (opera) | Act 2
"Silent Night" with music by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr.
Silent Night, Holy Night (1976 film) | Soundtrack
One Silent Night... Volume 1 is a Christmas album by Neil Zaza released in 2002.
One Silent Night... Volume 1 | Introduction
Sears is said to have written these words at the request of his friend, William Parsons Lunt, pastor of United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, for Lunt's Sunday school. One account says the carol was first performed by parishioners gathered in Sears' home on Christmas Eve, but to what tune the carol was sung is unknown as Willis' familiar melody was not written until the following year.
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | History
December 25, 1914: In the morning Jonathan buries his brother. A decision is made to extend the truce to allow for the burial of other soldiers. Later in the morning Father Palmer delivers the last rites as the bodies are carried away. During the day, the news of the truce reaches the British, French, and German headquarters. It is received with disbelief, anger, and the determination to punish the soldiers. In the evening Horstmayer wants to arrest Nikolaus for insubordination, but Anna takes his hand and leads him across the no-man's land toward the French side. Horstmayer's order to shoot him is ignored.
Silent Night (opera) | Act 2
Depicts a Christmas dinner amongst an extended family.
Silent Night (upcoming film) | Premise
The song, along with "Little Drummer Boy", begins with a rock-oriented opening before transitioning into a power ballad form. "Winter Wonderland/White Christmas" is a medley of the two songs, described as being similar to a mix of a Dixieland band with the Beatles. "Christmas Time Is Here" uses brass instruments in its arrangement, similar to that of Chicago-area bands. "Silent Night", which features Amy Grant singing background vocals, has been described as having a country or country pop arrangement. "Away" is an instrumental piece with a simple arrangement. "Joseph's Lullaby", the album's only original song, has been described as "emo-influenced", portraying both the night of Jesus' birth as well as the night after it.
The Christmas Sessions | Composition
Edmund Louis Gruber was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His family had a musical background. His ancestor, Franz Gruber, composed the music to the classic Christmas song "Silent Night."
Edmund L. Gruber | Life and career
Other holiday standards appearing on the album include: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin), John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie's "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", and "White Christmas", originally by Irving Berlin. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)", originally by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells, "The Little Drummer Boy (Carol of the Drum)" (Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone), Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr's "Silent Night", and "Joy to the World" (George Frideric Handel, Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) follow. The album closes with a rendition of Adolphe Adam and John Sullivan Dwight's "O Holy Night".
12 Songs of Christmas (Etta James album) | Composition
It is the Irish version of the Christmas carol "Silent Night", a favourite of Enya's since she first learned it with her school choir. Enya had previously recorded a version of the carol as a B-side to her single "Evening Falls...", the second released from "Watermark" (1988). The decision to record a new version came from Nicky, who suggested more of a chorale arrangement and saw the track as a good opportunity to present Enya's voice as a choir, a wish of his since working with Enya. Roma added: "His little wish has come true. He has finally gotten Enya to sing it exactly the way he had envisioned it".
And Winter Came... | Music and lyrics
"A Very Silent Night" is a single released in New Zealand exclusively for dogs - created by creatives Colin Mitchell and Alex Dyer, now at rascals.co.nz. It is a world first as the single can not be heard by human ears and can only be heard by animals that can hear outside of the normal human range - including Dogs . The single was sold during December 2007 to raise funds for the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). The music video for the song featured New Zealand artist Dei Hamo. It reached number one on 24 December 2007 and became the New Zealand Christmas number one.
A Very Silent Night | Introduction
"Adam Lay Ybounden" An Advent Processional Autumn Carol "Bethlehem" "Boundless Love" "By Gracious Powers" A Carol for Christmas "Forth in Thy Name" "Give Rest, O Christ" "God Remembers" Good Friday Anthems Heavenly Dance "Here, O My Lord" "How Can I Keep from Singing" "How Clear Is Our Vocation, Lord" "I Am Resurrection" "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" "I Saw Three Ships" "In Remembrance" (1990) "In the Bleak Mid-winter" "Infant Holy" "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" "Jerusalem, My Happy Home" "Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head" Joseph's Lullaby "Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor" Lullaby "Mary Said Yes" "Midnight Clear" Miriam Dances at the Red Sea A Neo-gothic Carol: "Ave Mary" A Neo-gothic Carol: "To Us this Morn" "O God of Gentle Strength" "O Gracious Light" (after Arnatt) "O Gracious Light" "The Peace of God" "Remember Christmas" "Rest In Peace:" A Song of Farewell Resurrection Dance "The Royal Banners of Our King" Sanctus/Picardy Sky Song Song of Mary: Magnificat Song of Simeon: Nunc Dimittis Song of the Advents "Songs of Sovereign Grace" "The Sons of Asaph" Spring Carol Stille Nacht Summer Carol "Sweet Music" "Sweet Spirit, Comfort Me" "There Is a Happy Land" "This Is the Feast of Victory for Our God" Three French Carols "Through all the Changing Scenes of Life" "Unto Us Is Born a Child" Visitation Carol Volemus Pastorcitos "We Are Not Our Own" "We Come, O Christ" "When In Our Music God Is Glorified" "Wonder, Love, and Praise" "Your Love, O Christ"
Russell Schulz-Widmar | Choral works
Most of the tracks included were originally issued on 78 RPM records. This collection contains all of Crosby's Decca label Christmas recordings, including some duplications of titles recorded at different times. The 1947 recording of "White Christmas" is the most played and considered the "standard" version; this re-recording was made due to the acetate of the 1942 version, and its flip side "Silent Night," becoming too degraded in quality to reproduce further copies. Tracks are presented in loose chronological order, with collaborations appearing in chronological order on disc two from tracks nine through twenty. Two tracks are previously unreleased songs: an alternate version of his original May 29, 1942 recording of "White Christmas"; and a February 21, 1935 recording of "Silent Night." The 1935 version of "Silent Night" was not released due to Crosby's feelings that a popular entertainer should not profit on such a religion-based song; however, once the proceeds were arranged to be donated to charity, a second recording of the song was released as a single in 1935 and was later packaged as part of a 1940 album.
Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas | Content
Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated featurette, inspired by the tale of the creation of the Christmas carol "Silent Night". It was directed by Buzz Potamkin and stars the voices of Phil Hartman (in his final film role before his death in May 1998), Jim Cummings, Marie Osmond, Tom Arnold and (a then-unknown) Lea Michele, and the songs were written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
Buster &amp; Chauncey's Silent Night | Introduction
At most, there were three people in the room, but mostly it was me and John. It's really fun to do that. You feel like you're wacky scientists, late at night in the lab, experimenting to your heart's content."
Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas | Background
Following the death of a family member siblings James and Angelica Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. There they learn learn of the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' vengeful brother. However, when they find the lost journal of a man named Jeffrey Butler, they discover that the town has its own sordid history, one more rooted in reality.
Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival | Plot
"Masters in This Hall" (alternative title: "Nowell, Sing We Clear") is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. The carol is moderately popular around the world but has not entered the canon of most popular carols.
Masters in This Hall | Introduction
In 1971, five-year-old Billy Chapman and his family go to visit a nursing home where his catatonic grandfather stays; when Billy remains alone with him for a few minutes, his grandfather suddenly awakens and tells Billy to fear Santa Claus, as he gives presents only to the children who have been good all year, and punishes the ones who have been naughty, no matter how briefly. While driving back, a man dressed in a Santa outfit seemingly has car trouble and gets Billy's family's attention. As they pull over to help, the Santa-clad criminal shoots the father with a pistol.
Silent Night, Deadly Night | Plot
"This Endris Night" (also "Thys Endris Night", "Thys Ender Night" or "The Virgin and Child") is a 15th-century English Christmas carol. It has also appeared under various other spellings. Two versions from the 15th-century survive, one republished in Thomas Wright, "Songs and Carols Now First Printed, From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century" (London: The Percy Society, 1847), and the other in the possession of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, Scotland, a legal deposit belonging to the Faculty of Advocates, a role which was assumed by the National Library of Scotland from 1925 onwards. All non-legal collections were given to the National Library.
This Endris Night | Introduction
Silent Night is a fact-based 2002 television film set on Christmas Eve in 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II.
Silent Night (2002 film) | Introduction
The Night Before Christmas is a 1905 American silent short film directed by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It closely follows Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas", and was the first film production of the poem.
The Night Before Christmas (1905 film) | Introduction
On Christmas Eve, Daniel Grudge (Hayden), a rich American industrialist, sits alone in a dark room of his mansion playing a record of a World War II-era popular song, "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)" by The Andrews Sisters. He looks at a framed display of war medals on the wall and seems about to cry. He shuts off the player, but as he leaves the room, he hears the record start to play again of its own accord, although the record player is still shut off. Downstairs, he meets a visitor, his nephew Fred (Gazzara).
A Carol for Another Christmas | Plot
"Music & Media" wrote about the song: "Just when you thought this was just a version of their worldwide smash with a couple of jingle bells added, this seasonal single erupts into a cheerful medley of Joy To The World, Jingle Bells and Silent Night. For all those who are looking for an uncomplicated Christmas."
Macarena | Critical reception
"Silent Night" is a power ballad by American rock band Bon Jovi. It is taken from their second album, "7800° Fahrenheit" (1985). It was the album's final single, debuting on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart Christmas week 1985 and hitting its peak of #24 a month later. The ballad was the glam metal album's most successful entry at rock radio, although it did not make the pop chart.
Silent Night (Bon Jovi song) | Introduction
"Christmalo.win" () is the lead single from the album. The title of the song is a compound word of Christmas and Halloween, and the track came out four days prior to the album's release. Inspired from Christmas song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", the single depicts modern people without division between virtue and vice, twisting stereotypical roles between Santa Claus and Halloween monsters, through the lyrics of the song, "I just got bigger and became Santa / From the cradle to the grave / I'm a slave to comfort but a sweet cake / They say I have dirty specs, cut off from the list / What do you think about my new policy that I worked on all night?" The theatrical version of its music video features child actresses Ellie (whose voice can be heard at the end of the song) and Kim Soo-hyun, and actor .
Quiet Night (album) | "Christmalo.win"
The libretto is based on the multilingual screenplay by Christian Carion for the 2005 film "Joyeux Noël" that tells a story during the historical short-lived spontaneous 1914 Christmas truce between enemy combatants in World War I. According to characters and situations, the libretto is mostly sung in English, French and German, but also some Italian and Latin. The opera was commissioned by Minnesota Opera as part of its New Works Initiative in co-production with Opera Philadelphia. For Kevin Puts, it was his first opera, while Mark Campbell had written librettos before. Campbell remarked that the core message of the opera is "'War is not sustainable when you come to know your enemy as a person.' When you see that the person you might be shooting has a child or a wife or has this life at home and they’re just not the enemy, then it becomes very difficult if not impossible to sustain war."
Silent Night (opera) | Background
This 8 minute animated interpretation of the Christmas poem preceded Gene Autry's 1949 song "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and the animated 1964 version. It was based on Robert L. May's 1939 story, rather than the song. The 1964 film more closely resembles the song rather than the original story. This short film was created to advertise Montgomery Ward department stores, the publisher of the original story. The original release included a credit for the company, and it lacked the famous song, with the opening credits instead playing over an instrumental version of "Silent Night, Holy Night". The 1951 re-release of the film added a choral version of the song to the credits and removed the Montgomery Ward name.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948 film) | History
"See, amid the Winter's Snow", also known as "Hymn for Christmas Day" and "The Hymn for Christmas", is an English Christmas carol. It was written by Edward Caswall (1814–1878), with music composed by Sir John Goss (1800–1880). As "Hymn for Christmas Day", it featured in "Christmas Carols New And Old", which was published in 1871 by Henry Ramsden Bramley (1833–1917) and John Stainer (1840–1901).
See, amid the Winter's Snow | Introduction
All arrangements by The Polyphonic Spree except "Silent Night" arranged by Ricky Rasura and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by John Lennon/Yoko Ono.
Holidaydream: Sounds of the Holidays, Vol. One | Track listing
Christmas carols were also changed. The words to "Silent Night" were changed so it made no reference to God, Christ, or religion. Words were also changed to the hymn "Unto Us a Time Has Come" so as to remove references to Jesus. The modified version of the hymn was in use for several more years in post-war Germany. The most popular carol promoted by the Nazis was Hans Baumann's "Exalted Night of the Clear Stars" ["Hohe Nacht der klaren Sterne"], which replaced traditional Christian themes with Nazi racial ideologies. The carol was popular after the collapse of Nazi Germany, was regularly performed into the 1950s, and is still sometimes performed in the modern day.
Christmas in Nazi Germany | Christmas in the Nazi regime
Christmas Song Book is an album by Italian singer Mina, released in 2013. In the album, Mina covers twelve Christmas songs, written between 1818 ("Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht", original version of "Silent Night") and 1973 ("Old Fashion Christmas"). Among the others, she sings four Bing Crosby hits ("The Secret of Christmas", "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "How Lovely Is Christmas" and "White Christmas"). Two songs were previously released: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (for the 2012 album, "12 (American Song Book)") and "Silent Night" (for the 2010 movie, "La banda dei Babbi Natale" by Italian comedians Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo and published in the EP "Piccola Strenna").
Christmas Song Book (Mina album) | Introduction
Unlike most traditional renditions of "Silent Night", Stefani's cover of the song contains a minor key change. Sal Cinquemani from "Slant Magazine" described "When I Was a Little Girl" as a "treacly" tune and another one inspired by Stefani's relationship with Shelton. Lyrically, Cinquemani determined it had the opposite meaning of No Doubt's 1995 single, co-written by Stefani, "Just a Girl". Her version of Wham!'s 1984 song "Last Christmas" is the sixth song, and according to Stefani, was "the most fun to record". Stefani stated: "[it] is a masterpiece as far as the music goes and how [producer Eric Valentine] created it.
You Make It Feel Like Christmas | Music and lyrics
While most of the songs on recorded for Midwinter Graces are interpretations of traditional carols, Amos penned five original songs for the album, one of them being "A Silent Night with You". Amos is expressly against organised religion, and did not want the album to be associated explicitly with Christianity's celebration of holidays, so she wanted her own songs to evoke positive associations with Christmas that were more inclusive, such as feelings of nostalgia, love and family:
A Silent Night with You | Background and release
Classic FM broadcasts the "Nation's Favourite Christmas Carol" in a similar format to the "Hall of Fame". The show counts down the 30 most popular Christmas carols every Christmas Day, as voted for by listeners. It began in 2001, with In the Bleak Midwinter winning the first vote. The following year, Silent Night was voted the nation's favourite. Every year since then the vote has been won by O Holy Night. Except for 2014 and 2015, in which Silent Night was voted as The Nation’s Favourite Christmas Carol.
Classic FM (UK) | Nation's Favourite Christmas Carol
Jon O'Brien from 'All Music' said; "This 12-track collaborative effort eschews their trademark anthemic schlager-pop sound in favour of a more refined and sophisticated approach that blends stripped-back acoustic production with the trio's unusually understated vocals. Alongside the classic standards and respectful performances of traditional carols "Silent Night," "O Holy Night," and "The First Noel," there are also a few lesser-known seasonal pieces thrown into the mix, including the inspirational "Light a Candle" and Donny Hathaway's underrated R&B effort "This Christmas." This surprisingly restrained effort will make fans of schlager-pop divas feel like all their Christmases have come at once."
Our Christmas | Reviews
An instrumental version of "I Saw Three Ships" is played when Scrooge gives a coin to Mrs. Dilber, and again just before the end of the film. "Silent Night" is played and sung at various times, including over the last part of the final scene and "The End". The English country dance "Sir Roger de Coverley" is played and danced during the scene where Scrooge visits the office of Old Fezziwig with The Ghost of Christmas Past.
Scrooge (1951 film) | Music
"Thank God for Kids" was previously recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys (and originally by Eddy Raven), while "Pretty Paper" was originally recorded by Willie Nelson. Chesney's rendition of "Silent Night" features his mother and her twin sister, who are credited as the Grigsby Twins.
All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan | Introduction
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear", sometimes rendered as "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", is an 1849 poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. In 1850, Sears' lyrics were set to "Carol", a tune written for the poem the same year at his request, by Richard Storrs Willis. This pairing remains the most popular in the United States, while in Commonwealth countries, the lyrics are set to "Noel", a later adaptation by Arthur Sullivan from an English melody.
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | Introduction
Glen Campbell Christmas contains seven tracks from "That Christmas Feeling" (1968), "Silent Night" from "The Christmas Sound of Music" (1969), "O Holy Night" from "Christmas for the '90s, Vol.2" (1990), and the 1972 "I Believe in Christmas" which first appeared on "The Wonderful World of Christmas" (1976).
Glen Campbell Christmas | Introduction
Some elements of the film have been noted as influential, particularly the killer's phone calls to victims, which was a significant plot element in Bob Clark's "Black Christmas", released two years later.
Silent Night, Bloody Night | Influence
One Silent Night... Volume 2 is the second Christmas album by Neil Zaza released in 2002.
One Silent Night... Volume 2 | Introduction
Silent Night, Holy Night is a 1976 Australian animated television special produced by Hanna-Barbera and written by Gene Thompson.
Silent Night, Holy Night (1976 film) | Introduction
Three songs ("Joseph's Lullaby", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and "Little Drummer Boy") charted inside the top ten of the "Billboard" Christian Songs chart, peaking at number one, nine, and ten, respectively."It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", "Gloria", "O Holy Night", "Silent Night", and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" also appeared on the chart. "Silent Night" peaked at number six on the Adult Contemporary chart, with "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", "Joseph's Lullaby", and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" also charting on that format.
The Christmas Sessions | Commercical performance
During the Christmas season, it is also very common for Christmas carols to be sung at Christian churches, as well as in front of houses—in the latter scenario, groups of Christians go from one house to another to sing Christmas carols. Popular Christmas carols include "Silent Night", "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus", "We Three Kings", "Down in Yon Forest", "Away in a Manger", "I Wonder as I Wander", "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen", "There's a Song in the Air", and "Let all mortal flesh keep silence". In the Christmas season, it is very common for television stations to air feature films relating to Christmas and Christianity in general, such as "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "Scrooge".
Christmastide | Traditions
A mysterious man dresses in a Santa Claus suit, complete with a mask. Once dressed, "Santa" captures and kills Jordan (Brendan Fehr), a police officer in the small town of Cryer, Wisconsin. Jordan is sleeping with the married Alana Roach (Ali Tartaryn) and is electrocuted with Christmas lights in his home. The following day, Christmas Eve, the Sheriff of Cryer, Sheriff Cooper (Malcolm McDowell), calls Deputy Aubrey Bradimore (Jaime King) in on her day off when Jordan doesn't arrive at work. Aubrey is a new addition to the police force and is still reeling from the unexpected death of her husband John.
Silent Night (2012 film) | Plot
This movement calls out to the circumstances of the birth of Christ and employs the choir to sing in a round to create an echoing effect. The choir and harp progress through the movement at contrasting paces and, over the duration of the piece, gradually synchronise until they both move at the same pace just before the ending when the music fades out. This is meant to symbolise the discord on earth before and during the birth of Christ and the hope of the future and the harmony he brings. Text: Behold, a silly tender babe, in freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies Alas, a piteous sight! The inns are full; no man will yield This little pilgrim bed.
A Ceremony of Carols | 9. "In Freezing Winter Night" (<a href="Robert%20Southwell%20%28Jesuit%29">Southwell</a>)
A German mother, Elisabeth Vincken (Linda Hamilton), who had already lost her eldest son in the Battle of Stalingrad and whose husband is a cook serving in the German Army, and her younger son, Fritz, are seeking refuge in a cabin near the front lines in the Ardennes forests region of western Europe. They are invaded by three American soldiers and then soon after three German soldiers, and after much resistance the mother manages to convince the enemy soldiers to put aside their differences for one night and share a Christmas dinner. The Germans were planning to kill the Americans, but eventually they and the American soldiers share their rations to make a proper Christmas dinner.
Silent Night (2002 film) | Plot
The closing track, a rendition of the traditional carol "Silent Night", features McEntire and Trisha Yearwood and ends in an a cappella setting between the trio. In addition, two tracks were also included in the deluxe edition of the album: the first, Clarkson's cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" from her "iTunes Session" extended play, and the second, her rendition of the first stanza of the ecclesiastical hymn "Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel".
Wrapped in Red | Song analysis
The 100th anniversary of the song in December 1918 fell at a difficult time immediately after World War I. Still, many of the citizens of Oberndorf wanted to honor the message of peace created by Mohr and Gruber. Begun in 1924, construction of a memorial chapel proceeded slowly under the difficult political and economic conditions of the period (First Republic). The chapel was eventually completed on August 15, 1937, the Feast of the (Assumption). The Memorial Chapel ultimately became the visible symbol of the song "Silent Night". Every year, especially at Christmas, thousands of people from around the world visit the Memorial Chapel and adjacent Museum.
Silent-Night-Chapel | History