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Christmas carol
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Christmas celebrations
- In Christmas: Origin and development
…of “lessons and carols” intertwines Christmas carols with Scripture readings narrating salvation history from the Fall in the Garden of Eden to the coming of Christ. The service, inaugurated by E.W. Benson and adopted at the University of Cambridge, has become widely popular.
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musical form in Romania
- In folk music: The forms of tunes
For example, some Romanian Christmas carols illustrate a three-line form, ABA, in which the lines have, successively, 9, 11, and 9 beats, and a song with five lines that are all variations of the first line, AA′A″AA″.
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