The secret messages behind your favourite Christmas carols, deciphered
Article content 9. Joy to the World The most-published carol in North America, it is also perhaps the only one composed by a banker. The tune is often credited as Antioch by Handel, but while the eagle-eared may spot apparent quotes from both Lift Up Your Heads and Comfort Ye from the composer’s Messiah, the tune is actually the work of Lowell Mason — a Handel enthusiast. 8. Away in a Manger Another carol, another controversy. Published in 1884 as Luther’s Cradle Song, Away in a Manger is not, in fact, the work of Martin Luther — a myth that took more than 50 years to debunk. Printi...
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