[COMPLETE] Christmas Carol Collection 2021 - ans

[commonsparrow3]

Christmas Carol Collection 2021

This collection is now closed.

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page:https://librivox.org/christmas-carol-collection-2021-by-various/

LibriVox volunteers bring you a festive selection of 16 Christmas carols for the 2021 holiday. This year's collection includes traditional favorites and lesser-known selections in English and Latin. The singers wish all listeners around the world a happy and peaceful Christmas and New Year. (Summary by Maria Kasper)

• How to claim a part: It is not necessary to pre-claim sections for this project. Simply follow the instructions listed below.

1. Choose a Christmas carol, in any language, which is in the public domain. To avoid “Is it PD?” headaches, please make sure your carol was published in 1925 or earlier.
2. You may choose a carol from a book with a publication date of 1925 or earlier plainly visible. The next post below contains links to a number of carol books. You may use any of these, or another carol book of your own choice, so long as it was clearly published no later than 1925.
3. Please bear in mind that many Christmas carol websites are not usable for LV because they do not verify PD status clearly enough. Consult the next post for links to two websites which are generally acceptable for LV use.
4. If you are not in the US, please make sure the death dates of the composer and lyricist fall within the required dates to be PD in your own country. If in doubt, please ask!
5. If you choose, you may sing PD carol lyrics to an original tune made up by yourself. If you are using your own tune, please make sure to say so.
6. If you want to check what has been included in previous Christmas carol collections, you can check them out here:
   https://librivox.org/search?q=christmas%20carol%20collection&search_form=advanced
   But remember, it doesn't matter if the carol has been recorded before. A choice of voice is always welcome at Librivox!
7. Each singer may submit as many carols as they wish (well, within reason ).
8. Any accompaniment must be performed by yourself.

• New to recording? Please read our Newbie Guide to Recording!
• Is there a deadline? Please upload your file by the DEADLINE of Sunday December 19th 2021
• Where do I find the text? Check the next post below for some suggested PD carol sources.
  
  Please don't download or listen to files belonging to projects in process (unless you are the BC or PL). Our servers are not set up to handle the greater volume of traffic. Please wait until the project has been completed. Thanks!
  

  Magic Window:

  
  
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  [*]Project Code: SIq8i6Wb
  [*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available):
  [*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
  [*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 20
  [*]Does the project have an introduction or preface: No
  [*]Original publication date (if known):
  [*]If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog?
  [*]Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:

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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Music

Keywords that describe the book: Christmas, music, holiday, carols, singing, caroling

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[*]BEFORE recording: Please check the Recording Notes: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6427#6430

Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz[/list]
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• DURING recording:
  .
  No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
  Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording:
  START of recording (Intro)
  • "[Title] by [Author Name], sung in [language]. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox Recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librivox.org"
    OR if you are singing in another language, please feel free to use the LibriVox disclaimer in that language. You can find these on this page in the Wiki.
  
  END of recording
  • At the end of the section, say:
    "End of [Title], by [Author Name]"
  • If you wish, you may also say: "Sung by [your name]."
  
  There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.

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• AFTER recording
  Need noise-cleaning?
  Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear some constant background noise (hiss/buzz), you may want to clean it up a bit. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide.
  .
  Save files as
  128 kbps MP3
  File name all in lowercase: ccc21_[carol's title]_[your initials in lower case]_128kb.mp3
  (e.g. ccc21_harktheherald_mk_128kb.mp3) (Please, be sure the file name is all in lower case, and that there are no spaces).
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  ID3 Tags are not necessary.

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• Transfer of files (completed recordings)
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  • Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
    
    (If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin)
  • You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: Annise
  • When your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread.
  • If this doesn't work, or you have questions, please check our How To Send Your Recording wiki page.
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• Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file and include the following information:
  • * Link to your recording, as shown on the Uploader
    * Link to the text (and music) source
    * Language in which the carol is written
    * Author's/translator's (and composer's) name, birth and death dates
    * Title of the carol
    * Duration (runtime) of the file in mm:ss
    * and if this is your first recording: how you would like to be listed in the LibriVox catalogue. We can also link to a personal web site/blog.
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  Please remember to check this thread frequently for updates!
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  • Any questions?
    Please post below

[commonsparrow3]

Some sources for Christmas carols:

WEBSITES:
Using websites as sources for PD Christmas carols can be risky, because not all websites are careful about properly checking the copyright status of the music and lyrics they post. This is why we prefer that you choose a song from a book with a verifiable publication date.
However, we have discovered that these two websites have been reasonably reliable sources for Christmas carols: Hymntime and Hymnary.
Please note that not all of the carols on these sites are necessarily PD, so it is important to check dates on any song you choose. Both of these sites are good about providing accurate publication dates and specific sources, often with scans of the original pages. If they list a hymn as having been published in 1925 or earlier, we will generally believe them. These two sites also frequently provide the death dates for the song's authors and composers, which is helpful for singers in "death-plus" countries.

CAROL BOOKS:
(Any other suggestions of PD carol songbooks will be welcome.)

ENGLISH (with some Latin)
Arundel Hymns (c1905)
by Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, (1847-1917); Charles Tindal Gatty
http://www.archive.org/details/arundelhymnsmusi00norfuoft

Christmas carols new and old (1870)
by John Stainer (1840-1901); Henry Ramsden Bramley (1833-1916)
http://archive.org/details/chricarolsn00bram

Christmas Carols from the Wellesley Song Book (c1917)
by Wellesley College
http://www.archive.org/details/christmascarolsf00well

The Festival Song Budget: Christmas 1913 (1913)
http://www.archive.org/details/festivalsongbudg00newy

Christmas carols ancient and modern
by William Lawrence Tomlins (1844-1930)
http://www.archive.org/details/christmascarolsa00toml

Christmas Carols (1900)
by Francis Landon Humphreys (1851-1937)
http://www.archive.org/details/christmascarols00humpgoog

Christmas carols; old English carols for Christmas and other festivals (1922)
by Lavinia Edna Walter; Lucy Etheldred Broadwood, (d. 1929)
http://www.archive.org/details/christmascarolso00walt

Christmas carols, ancient and modern
by William Sandys (1792-1874)
https://archive.org/details/christmascarolsa00sandrich

Carols old and carols new
by Rev. Charles L. Hutchins
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015009638027

Some ancient Christmas carols: with the tunes to which they were formerly sung in the west of England
collected by Davies Gilbert (1767-1839)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000004289210

Christmas carols we love to sing
(various authors/composers)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000067569229

Christmas carols and hymns for school and choir
compiled and edited by Hollis Dann
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.908539_001

Christmas carols; or, Sacred songs suited to the festival of Our Lord's nativity; with appropriate music, and an account of the Christmas carol.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044010525418

Father Finn's Carol Book
Francis James Finn (1859-1928)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015009638043

The Cowley Carol Book (1922)
George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848-1934)
http://archive.org/details/cowleycarolbookf00wooduoft

Six Christmas songs: with English and German words
by Peter Cornelius
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822004582813

English folk-carols: with pianoforte accompaniment
by Cecil J. Sharp (1859-1924)
https://archive.org/details/englishfolkcarol00shar

OTHER LANGUAGES

Christmas and New Year songs
compiled by Florence H. Botsford. reprinted from the First and Second Volumes of Folk Songs of Many Peoples.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000032504590
This book has carols from many countries, including Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Greece, Japan, Germany, Denmark, Hungary. Most have words in the original language, as well as English translations.

FRENCH:
Ten provençal carols (c1918) by Micoulau Saboly (1614-1675)
http://www.archive.org/details/tenprovenalcar00sabo
Words in English and French

Noëls anciens de la Nouvelle-France
https://archive.org/details/cihm_08743
Words in French, with music scores
Paroles en français, avec partitions (généralement un peu après le texte complet du chant)

GERMAN:
Weihnacht-spiele und lieder aus Süddeutschland und Schlesien (1875) ed. Dr. Karl Weinhold (1823-1901)
http://www.archive.org/details/weihnachtspiele00weingoog

Evangelisches Gesangbuch (1889) by Evangelical Synod of North America
http://www.archive.org/details/evangelischesge00amergoog

Evangelisches Gesangbuch für Kirche, Schule und Haus in Basel-stadt und Basel-land (1859)
by Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche des Kantons Basel-Stadt,
http://www.archive.org/details/evangelischesge00unkngoog

Six Christmas songs: with English and German words
by Peter Cornelius
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822004582813

ITALIAN:
Sette canzoni pastorali sopra il Natale di nostro signor Gesù Cristo (1829)
by Carlo Roggia, professore di sacra teologia (no tunes)
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-i8GAlJOAfAC

DUTCH:
Oude en Nieuwere Kerstliederen (1852)
by Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm (1820-1889)
https://books.google.nl/books?id=G-RWAAAAcAAJ&printsec=fro

[commonsparrow3]

A personal note to contributors --
My daily life is rather busy lately, so I tend to check in on the computer only late at night. If you post something, be assured I will see it and reply. But it may be up to 24 hours later, if you posted just after I finished my nightly check-in. Don't worry! I will catch it the next night!

Also a note to whoever MC's this --
For some reason, the project template generated a listing for me as "translator", when I know that I left the translator section blank on the template! I deleted that from the first post when I edited it. But I just want to be sure that I won't accidentally turn up as translator later, when this goes to the catalog.
Also, I will edit the summary at the last minute to fill in the exact number of carols in this year's collection, and their languages, as I do every year.

[annise]

I can MC this Maria- back soon

Anne

All done - and I deleted you as translator so I'll check later that it believes me this time. Are you looking for PL help ?

[alanmapstone]

The Boars Head Carol
Traditional
English

Text:
Christmas carols; old English carols for Christmas and other festivals (1922)
by Lavinia Edna Walter; Lucy Etheldred Broadwood, (d. 1929)
Page 30
http://www.archive.org/details/christmascarolso00walt

The tune, such as it is, is my own improvisation.
MP3:
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_boarsheadcarol_asm_128kb.mp3
1.39

A first contribution

[JoannaHoyt]

Would it be acceptable to use the Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols (by Oxford University Press) as a source? They do clearly list the dates of composition for both lyrics and tunes, and their version of "Hail The Blest Morn" is the one I know best... I could scan in the page listing dates if that would be OK.

[annise]

They may have been written originally at a PD date - but we have no way of knowing if they have been modernised and what the copyright status of the book is, so no.

Anne

[mightyfelix]

For some reason, the project template generated a listing for me as "translator", when I know that I left the translator section blank on the template! I deleted that from the first post when I edited it. But I just want to be sure that I won't accidentally turn up as translator later, when this goes to the catalog.

You're not the first person to experience this. I think what we figured out is that this happens when you use the "auto-fill" feature to enter yourself as the author of the book summary. You start typing your name, then when you click to fill it in, it also fills your name in further up in the form, so of course it's easy to miss since you've already scrolled past it. I don't know if this is something that's possible to fix on the tech end, but the other solution is to just type yourself in manually, rather than using auto-fill.

(Not that you asked, but I thought this might be helpful to others. )

[commonsparrow3]

I can MC this Maria- back soon

Anne

All done - and I deleted you as translator so I'll check later that it believes me this time. Are you looking for PL help ?

Thank you, Anne, for MC'ing and getting this set up! And for fixing the "translator" error.
I will be doing the PL'ing myself, though I will ask for other PL'ing if I submit any carols myself.

[commonsparrow3]

Would it be acceptable to use the Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols (by Oxford University Press) as a source? They do clearly list the dates of composition for both lyrics and tunes, and their version of "Hail The Blest Morn" is the one I know best... I could scan in the page listing dates if that would be OK.

They may have been written originally at a PD date - but we have no way of knowing if they have been modernised and what the copyright status of the book is, so no.

Anne

Joanna, I see Anne has already replied to your inquiry. So I will only add that I did look at a copy of the "Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols", and it says "c. Oxford University Press 1993. All rights reserved". That leaves no room for doubt. However, the carol itself is old enough that there are many earlier publications which include it. You may certainly find an earlier arrangement of "Hail The Blest Morn", so you could still record this carol if you like it.

[commonsparrow3]

You're not the first person to experience this. I think what we figured out is that this happens when you use the "auto-fill" feature to enter yourself as the author of the book summary. You start typing your name, then when you click to fill it in, it also fills your name in further up in the form, so of course it's easy to miss since you've already scrolled past it. I don't know if this is something that's possible to fix on the tech end, but the other solution is to just type yourself in manually, rather than using auto-fill.

(Not that you asked, but I thought this might be helpful to others. )

Thank you, Devorah, for this enlightening explanation! Yes, this was very helpful to know. I did indeed click on the autofill whenever the opportunity offered, delighted at finding a shortcut to much typing - (I am lazy that way!) And I never scrolled back up to see if the things I had entered earlier had changed! Good to know that there's a logical explanation. I will be wary of autofills in future.

[commonsparrow3]

The Boars Head Carol
Traditional
English

Text:
Christmas carols; old English carols for Christmas and other festivals (1922)
by Lavinia Edna Walter; Lucy Etheldred Broadwood, (d. 1929)
Page 30
http://www.archive.org/details/christmascarolso00walt

The tune, such as it is, is my own improvisation.
MP3:
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/ccc21_boarsheadcarol_asm_128kb.mp3
1.39

A first contribution

Yay! We have our first contribution! And it's a dandy! Thanks, Alan, for starting us off so well. Your improvised tune fits this carol perfectly. The carol book specifies "in stately march time", and that's exactly what you gave us. This is PL OK!

[JoannaHoyt]

Would it be acceptable to use the Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols (by Oxford University Press) as a source? They do clearly list the dates of composition for both lyrics and tunes, and their version of "Hail The Blest Morn" is the one I know best... I could scan in the page listing dates if that would be OK.

They may have been written originally at a PD date - but we have no way of knowing if they have been modernised and what the copyright status of the book is, so no.

Anne

Joanna, I see Anne has already replied to your inquiry. So I will only add that I did look at a copy of the "Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols", and it says "c. Oxford University Press 1993. All rights reserved". That leaves no room for doubt. However, the carol itself is old enough that there are many earlier publications which include it. You may certainly find an earlier arrangement of "Hail The Blest Morn", so you could still record this carol if you like it.

Thank you both for the clarification. I see that the 1835 "Southern Harmony and musical companion" has the exact same tune and lyrics I know from the Oxford Book, though they title the song Star in the East... Will remember henceforth that the books as well as the carols need to be PD.

[commonsparrow3]

Thank you both for the clarification. I see that the 1835 "Southern Harmony and musical companion" has the exact same tune and lyrics I know from the Oxford Book, though they title the song Star in the East... Will remember henceforth that the books as well as the carols need to be PD.

When an old carol goes by a variety of titles, it's not always easy to locate. I'm glad that you found a PD source with the exact tune and words you needed! Perfect! I'm looking forward to hearing you sing it!

[Nedge]

"If you choose, you may sing PD carol lyrics to an original tune made up by yourself. If you are using your own tune, please make sure to say so."

I don't understand. If it's a PD carol, wouldn't you be allowed to sing it to the original melody?