-
Recent Posts
- 59 days and counting
- Lancashire Witches
- (Nearly) At the event – Ferry cross to Eurovision land
- At the April Chamber Studio Hans Keller Forum
- A very Cambridge coronation
- From Lanier to Weir : Masters of the King’s Music
- Good Things in Music Over the Last Year
- To celebrate, to commemorate…James Bowman
Archives
-
Join 2,092 other subscribers
- Anderson Room
- anniversaries
- Arthur Bliss
- At the event
- audio-visual materials
- Black Bear Inn
- Bygone concert venues
- C18 music
- C19 music
- C20 composers
- Cambridge Colleges
- Cambridge composers
- Cambridge University Library
- CDs
- Christmas
- collection development
- College Libraries
- Composers' archives
- concert programmes
- concerts
- concert venues
- Copyright
- Crystal Palace
- Deryck Cooke
- Deryck Cooke Archive
- donations
- Doreen Carwithen
- DVDs
- e-resources
- ebooks
- exams
- exhibitions
- Faculty of Music
- film music
- First world war
- Hans Keller
- IAML
- legal deposit
- librarianship
- Meet...
- music
- Musical anniversaries
- music and literature
- Music archives
- Music at CUL
- Music at the Pendlebury
- music at the UL
- Music collectors
- Music Department
- music librarians
- music librarianship
- music literature
- music manuscripts
- music pilot
- Music publishing
- new aquisitions
- opera
- outreach
- Pendlebury Library
- Pendlebury Library of Music
- popular music
- rare books
- sheet music
- slow moments
- social history
- songs
- stock management
- To celebrate to commemorate
- user education
- Victorian sheet music
- Victorian songs
- William Alwyn
- William Alwyn Archive
- women composers
- work experience
Blogroll
- British Library Music Blog
- IAML (UK & Irl) blog
- Incunabula Project blog (Cambridge University Library)
- Loeb Music Library Blog (Harvard University)
- Music@The Bodleian
- Sound Recordings Blog (British Library)
- Special Collections Blog (Cambridge University Library)
- Tower Project blog (Cambridge University Library)
Tag Archives: Christmas music
Singing at the UL
In 1991, thirty years ago, the UL Choir was established. It was first conducted by Mary Halloran, then working in the Music Department at the UL, then Jeremy Wong took over. Tim Penton and Lucas Elkin swapped with each other … Continue reading
The song of Tiny Tim
What do you usually buy for Christmas? High on my list of presents for friends is the gift that I most like to receive myself – books. The Christmas period is one of the busiest times of the year for … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Charles Dickens, Christmas, Christmas music, music and literature, Victorian sheet music
Leave a comment
The shipping forecast
Here in the Music Department, we were discussing Christmas traditions – Kate, who has spent time in Holland told us about Sinterklaas, Anna, originally from Belgium, then expanded on that. Sinterklaas traditionally arrives on a ship, along with his helpers … Continue reading
Odd bedfellows
I came across a thread on a Facebook group recently which threw up a fascinating story quite unexpectedly. One of the members of the group was looking for alternative settings of hymns and canticles to unexpected tunes. One of my particular … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged carols, Christmas, Christmas music, folk songs, unusual tune settings
3 Comments
Nowel Nowel
A few weeks ago I was trying to sort out the blogging rota. As the MusiCB3 bloggers headed off for their Christmas breaks I was left with the Yuletide blog that will take us into the New Year. I thought I … Continue reading
MusiCB3 Blog 