Music Archives - DulciWorld

Christmas card, circa 1874. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wales: The Evolution of ‘Deck the Halls’

By Fiona Potts | Arrangements illustrate the progression from traditional melody to holiday classic.

Madrid MSS 289. Folios 146v and 147v featuring "Orientis Partibus." View the digitized manuscript at bit.ly/dpn-madrid. Images from the collections of the National Library of Spain.

France: Honoring the donkey

By Fiona Potts | From “Orientis Partibus” to “The Friendly Beasts,” Christmas songs with donkeys are part of a time-honored tradition...

Franco-Ontarian Marc Mathieu at the Gilles Gagnon Welcome Centre's moose statue in Hearst, Ontario, the "Moose Capital of Canada." Photo courtesy of Marc Mathieu.

Canada: Traditional French-Canadian music and song

By Marc Mathieu | Blended musical traditions perfectly suited to the mountain dulcimer. Traditional folk music and song, regardless of cultural origin, are ...