Medieval Christmas Carols

City Lit

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In London

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This course will focus on the carols written for the Christian celebration of Christmas and its associated feasts: Advent and Epiphany. We may also consider a few carols from the feast of the Annuciation, which in medieval times were traditionally sung at Christmas. Many of the carol tunes will be known from modern, regularised versions but they will be studied here in their older forms.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- recognise key forms of medieval carols (Christmas examples)
- feel confident using some technical language to describe carols
- read the Medieval lyrics and recognise some common themes.

You will need to bring a pen/pencil and a folder to keep your notes and handouts organised. You may also wish to purchase some of the music books or recordings discussed in class, links to these materials will be available online after the session.

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Course programme

- What is a carol
- various forms of carols
- What makes a Carol a ‘Christmas Carol’
- Technical language of medieval carols: burden, refrain etc…
- Examples of Christmas carols in manuscript and performance.

The single session will comprise combinations of lecture, question-and-answer, guided listening, video and manuscript study. You may wish to do extra reading after this class and suggestions will be made for this. There will also be Spotify and Youtube playlists for this course if you wish to do extra listening.

Additional information

Next term at the same time Edward will be teaching a course called Handel: the late oratorios (MD816) To find out more about music appreciation classes and to read some of our recommendations, please see the blog post Music history and appreciation: the 2018/19 programme which lists our full programme of classes listed by term, and by day of the week. You may then click on each title to read the full course outline. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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Medieval Christmas Carols

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