Friday, December 19, 2008

Christmas Jazz Medley AUDIO

Christmas Jazz 64Kbps MP3 3.9 mb, Christmas Jazz VBR MP3 7.9 mb, Christmas Jazz OGG format 6.0 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.



Joy to the World

  • by German-born English composer George Friedric Handel (1685-1759)
Good King Wenceslas
  • The lyrics of the carol are by John Mason Neale, Warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead, Sussex (1818–1866).
  • The tune is that of "Tempus Adest Floridum" ("It is time for flowering"), a 13th-century spring carol, first published in the Swedish/Finnish Piae Cantiones, 1582.
O Christmas Tree O Tannenbaum
  • The melody is an old folk tune. The first known "Tannenbaum" song lyrics date back to 1550.
What Child is This
  • was written in 1865 writer William Chatterton Dix set to the traditional English melody of Greensleeves
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
  • The composer is unknown; it is often attributed as English traditional. Sung for centuries before being published in Britain in 1833,
Performed by The U.S. Marine Corps Band, Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" from the U.S. Copyright Office.

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Official 2004 Christmas tree White House photo by Susan SternerImage Courtesy Public Domain Clip Art

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