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Posted by Paul Stamler on 01/10/06 20:26
"Kernix" <jimkernicky@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1136922363.226383.298220@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> "At mfiles we only provide free sheet music for public domain songs,
> but we have created a number of different versions of each which should
> cater for many different musical instruments. If you click
> ....(blah-blah-blah):"
>
> Here's the link:
>
> http://www.mfiles.co.uk/other-christmas.htm
>
> It lists 12 traditional xmas songs, 5 that I recognize.
Ya still need to be careful; some traditional songs have been rewritten by
the likes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and are under copyright as a result.
The meaning of "traditional" is hotly debated in the folklore community;
suffice it to say that it doesn't always mean "unknown author". Oh, and the
authors of "O Little Town of Bethlehem" are known: words by Phillips Brooks,
1867; music by Lewis Redner, 1868. Public Domain.
The Oxford Book of Carols is a good source of Christmas songs as well as
fairly accurate information about authorship.
Peace,
Paul
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