Editing Christmas music (section)

===Royal restoration===
[[File:Kings College Chapeljh.jpg|thumb|[[King's College Chapel, Cambridge]], (left) in the snow where the [[Nine Lessons and Carols]] are broadcast on the [[BBC]] and around the world on Christmas Eve]]
When in May 1660 [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] restored the [[Stuarts]] to the throne, the people of England once again practiced the public singing of Christmas carols as part of the revival of Christmas customs, sanctioned by the king's own celebrations.<ref name="Ban"/><ref name="Hutton" />

The [[Victorian Era]] saw a surge of Christmas carols associated with a renewed admiration of the holiday, including "[[Silent Night]]", "[[O Little Town of Bethlehem]]", and "[[O Holy Night]]". The first Christmas songs associated with [[Saint Nicholas]] or other gift-bringers also came during 19th century, including "[[Up on the Housetop]]" and "[[Jolly Old St. Nicholas]]".<ref name="PsychVictorian">{{Cite magazine |last=Moore |first=Kimberly |date=December 6, 2011 |title=A Brief History of Holiday Music: The 1800s and the Re-Invention of Christmas |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-musical-self/201112/brief-history-holiday-music-the-1800s-and-the-re-invention-christmas |magazine=Psychology Today |access-date=October 22, 2017}}</ref> Many older Christmas hymns were also translated or had lyrics added to them during this period, particularly in 1871 when [[John Stainer]] published a widely influential collection entitled "''Christmas Carols New & Old''".<ref name="PsychVictorian" /> [[William Sandys (antiquarian)|William Sandys]]'s ''Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern'' (1833), contained the first appearance in print of many now-classic English carols, and contributed to the mid-Victorian revival of the holiday.<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard Michael |last=Kelly |title=A Christmas Carol |page=10 |publisher=Broadview Press |year=2003 |isbn=1-55111-476-3}}</ref> Singing carols in church was instituted on Christmas Eve 1880 ([[Nine Lessons and Carols]]) in [[Truro Cathedral]], Cornwall, England, which is now seen in churches all over the world.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2005/12/16/faith_nine_lessons_feature.shtml |title=Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols |date=December 16, 2005 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

According to one of the only observational research studies of Christmas caroling, Christmas observance and caroling traditions vary considerably between nations in the 21st century, while the actual sources and meanings of even high-profile songs are commonly misattributed, and the motivations for carol singing can in some settings be as much associated with family tradition and national cultural heritage as with religious beliefs.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hebert |first1=David |last2=Kallio |first2=Alexis Anja |last3=Odendaal |first3=Albi |year=2012 |title=NotSo ''Silent'' Night: Tradition, Transformation and Cultural Understandings of Christmas Music Events in Helsinki, Finland |journal=Ethnomusicology Forum |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=402–423 |doi=10.1080/17411912.2012.721525|s2cid=143629912 }}</ref> Christmas festivities, including music, are also celebrated in a more secular fashion by such institutions as the [[Santa Claus Village]], in [[Rovaniemi]], Finland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://santaclausvillage.info/|title=Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi in Lapland Finland Arctic Circle|website=Santa Claus Village Rovaniemi Finland}}</ref>