CAROL-SINGING
fhe custom of singing carols in bands from house to house on Christmas Eve has been one of the most beloved -- features of the Christmas tradition. The name "wait" seems to have been given in the past to that member of the Royal Household's minstrels whoso duty it was to pass at midnight from door to door of the rooms and pipe the watches osi some sort of instrumenfc t] Unlike the waits and carol singers, \ whose purpose was (if not actually) r the: making of sacred music to coin- e memoraJte tha Nativity. 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 10 (Supplement)
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96CAROL-SINGING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 10 (Supplement)
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