The first Noel
11th December 2019
Continuing our Christmas carol countdown, it’s ‘The first Noel’! The first appearance of ‘The first Noel’ (without music) was in the second edition of Davies Gilbert‘s Some ancient Christmas Carols, with the Tunes to which they were formerly sung in the West of England (London, John Nichols and Son, 1823): In this second, expanded edition, ‘there […]
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