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289: 308: 80:, and contributed to the mid-Victorian revival of the holiday. Sandys presented his collections in three parts. The first part "Containing Ancient Carols and Christmas Songs, From the Early Part of the Fifteenth to The End of the Seventeenth Century" contains examples in 197:"In spite of continual references to 'old carols' it is no common thing to find a carol of established early date in any modern source, oral, written or printed," remarks Richard L. Greene, in "The Traditional Survival of Two Medieval Carols" 96:, many of which, including those now published, are still in use. Some few of them are printed occasionally in the country, and also in London, Birmingham, and other places, as broadside carols; others have appeared, with some variation, in 91:
The second part of Sandys' collection contains "A Selection From Carols Still Used In The West Of England" which Sandys claimed to have selected "from upwards of one hundred obtained in different parts of the West of
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Sandys' book marked the first appearances of many now-classic English carols, including
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Among the carols that made their first appearance here are the classics
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Richard Michael Kelly. A Christmas carol p.10. Broadview Press, 2003
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Christmas-tide, Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music
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A third part offered "Specimens of French Provincial Carols."
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that Sandys had gathered and also apparently improvised.
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Index

William B. Sandys
English
solicitor
Percy Society
Society of Antiquaries of London
seasonal carols
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
The First Noel
Middle English
Early Modern English
Cornwall
Mr. Gilbert
The First Noel
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
I Saw Three Ships
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Merry England
Christmas
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
ISBN
1-55111-476-3
archive.org
"William Sandys"
"The Hymns and Carols of Christmas"
Free scores by William Sandys (antiquarian)
International Music Score Library Project
"Sandys, William (1792-1874)" 
Lee, Sidney
Dictionary of National Biography

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