The Spirit of Christmas: A History of Our Best-Loved Carols [With CD]

by Lesley Ehlers and Virginia Reynolds

Book Overview

The history of our best-loved carols, including Silent Night; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; Ave Maria; and many more. Gorgeously illustrated throughout with Renaissance art. The enclosed high-quality... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880884142
• ISBN13: 9780880884143
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
• Length: 57 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Traditional Christmas Carols

Beautiful art and beautiful music complement the stories of the origins of our most beloved traditional Chrismas carols.

For an accurate history of carols, this is the book to own

"The Spirit of Christmas" by Virginia Reynolds, is a well-researched and quite accurate account of the history of Christmas carols Having done extensive research in Austria on the background of "Silent Night," I can say that this book contains the most accurate story of the carol ever published in the United States - only one small error. Reading through the rest of the carols, it's obvious that the author didn't depend on popular legends and fairytales about the composers and their songs. She obviously did her homework. The book has beautiful artwork and also comes with a CD of the carols.

musical magical inspirations

The book A HISTORY OF BEST-LOVED CAROLS THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS by Virginia Reynolds is beautifully put together as a hard bound book. Just to look at it is inspirational. The pictures are spell binding, the written history of the songs are captivating, so very informative and easy to read. The music lifts you to a higher level. The fonts used in the making of the book makes for such a elegant vision to look at. The CD to listen to, is so spirtual that you feel you are in a gothic cathedral. The music gives you chills of spiritual bliss within. It is a sincere gift of heartfelt angelic magical inspiration.