The Oxford Book of Carols is the most famous and the most complete of all carol collections.
 
It contains 197 carols. Most are for the Christmas season, but some are for Passiontide or Easter, or for other seasons of the year. All but thirty have traditional carol tunes, mostly with traditional texts. The remainder have music by 19th- or 20th-century composers, including such famous carols as Holst's 'In the Bleak Midwinter' and 'Lullay my liking', Cornelius's 'Three Kings from Persian lands afar', and Tchaikovsky's 'The crown of roses'.
 
Percy Dearmer edited the words and Martin Shaw and Ralph Vaughan Williams the music. Vaughan Williams also composed four carols and collected a number of the folk carols. 
 
Size: 148mm x 216mm x 26mm
Paperback
No. pages: 480