Christmas carols set in Lilypond

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Tune name	Song description
Alle psallite	13th century French conductus Various phrases are inserted into the middle of the word Alleluya. Alle - psallite cum lu - y - a The top voice is dorian and the second voice is aeolian: both sharp the penultimate note to turn it into a "leading tone"), but the final open fifth gives an over-all assignment of dorian. Tenor/melody (top); cantus/countermelody (line 2); alto/drone-like (line 3). Lilypond (bass doubles alto). PDF (bass doubles alto).
Wassail Song	Traditional Yorkshire New Year's carol. Here we come awassailing, Among the leaves so green Lilypond file PDF file
Julekveld	I am so glad each Christmas Eve, The night of Jesus' birth! Lilypond file (English) PDF file (English) Jeg er så glad hver ju lekveld,for da ble Jeus født; Lilypond file (Norsk) PDF file (Norsk)
Auld Lang Syne	Auld Lang Syne in 4 parts in Shapes Lilypond file PDF file
Boars Head Carol	The boar's head in hand bear I, Be decked with bays and rosemary Simple files for shape note singers Lilypond file PDF file Zipped folder of more complex Lilypond version by Phil Holmes.
Euclid (shapenote)	Words & music by Dan Harper. Good Maccabeus and his band, They freed Jerusalem. They cast the wicked tyrant out, For God was guiding them. Lilypond file PDF file
Boughs of sorrow (shapenote)	Words of "Deck the halls with boughs of holly" to the tune "Sons of Sorrow". Lilypond file PDF file
Chesterfield	"Hark the glad sound the Savior comes" (Philip Doddridge) Lilypond file PDF file
Raymond	"Fuging tune" version of "Hark the glad sound the Savior comes" Lilypond file of first stanza PDF file of first stanza Lilypond file with two stanzas (smaller font size) PDF file of with two stanzas
Divinum Mysterium	plainsong, mode V, 13th century Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348-413) Of the Father's love begotten Ere the worlds began to be, Lilypond file PDF file
Song of the Angels at the Nativity	Anthem version of "While shepherds watched their flocks by night" composed by William Knapp (1698-1768), a parish church composer from Dorsetshire. Lilypond file PDF file
Traditional carols zipped files	Generated by Father Gordon Gilbert who shares them both as PDF booklet; and also -- As Zipped Lilypond files (part 1) 02 AngelsFromTheRealms.ly 03 AwayInAManger-Complete.ly 04 GoTellItOnTheMountain.ly 05 GodRestYouMerry.ly 06 GoodChristianMen-Complete.ly 07 GoodKingWenceslas.ly 08 HarkTheHerald-Complete.ly 09 InTheBleakMid-Winter-Complete.ly 10 ItCameUponTheMidnightClear.ly 11 JoyToTheWorld-Complete.ly 12 LetAllMortalFlesh.ly 13 LoHowARose.ly 14 OComeAllYeFaithful-Complete.ly Zipped Lilypond files (part 2) 15 OComeOComeEmmanuel.ly 16 OLittleTown-Complete.ly 17 OLittleTown-ForestGreen-Complete.ly 18 OfTheFathersLove.ly 19 OnceInRoyal-Complete.ly 20 SeeAmidTheWintersSnow.ly 21 ShepherdsInTheFields.ly 22 SilentNight-Complete.ly 23 TheFirstNowell-Complete.ly 24 HuronCarol-E-minor.ly 25 UntoUsABoyIsBorn-Complete.ly 26 WhatChildIsThis.ly 27 WhileShepherdsWatched-Complete.ly
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Links to other websites with carols in Lilypond.

Reinhold Kainhofer's site (Mixture of German and English)

-) Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Michael Praetorius)
-) Hark! the herald angels sing (Felix Mendelssohn)
-) In dulci jubilo (Michael Praetorius)
-) O sanctissima! (Oh du fröhliche!) (Ludwig van Beethoven)
-) Tochter Zion (Georg Friedrich Händel)

Henning Hraban Ramm's site (German songs).

O Tannenbaum (a-moll)
O Tannenbaum (C-dur)
Es saß ein klein wild Vögelein (a-moll)