Editing Christmas carol (section)

==In classical music==
In the 1680s and 1690s, two French composers incorporated carols into their works. [[Louis-Claude Daquin]] wrote 12 noels for organ. [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier]] wrote a few instrumental versions of noels, plus one major choral work ''[[Messe de minuit pour Noël]]''. [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] included Christmas carols in his [[List of church cantatas by liturgical occasion#Christmas (25 December)|cantatas for Christmastide]], including his ''[[Christmas Oratorio]]''. [[Peter Cornelius]] included carol melodies in the accompaniment of his song cycle ''[[Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8 (Cornelius)|Weihnachtslieder]]'', Op. 8. Other examples include:
* [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]: ''[[Fantasia on Christmas Carols]]'', 1912.
* [[Victor Hely-Hutchinson]]: ''[[Carol Symphony]]'', 1927.
* [[Benjamin Britten]]: ''[[A Ceremony of Carols]]'' (for choir and harp), 1942
* [[Christina Rossetti]]'s poem "[[In the Bleak Midwinter]]" has been set to music by [[Gustav Holst]] (1905), [[Harold Darke]] (1911) and others.
* Polish composer [[Krzysztof Penderecki]] extensively quotes the Christmas carol "Silent Night" in his [[Symphony No. 2 (Penderecki)|Symphony No. 2]], nicknamed the ''Christmas Symphony''.