The Coventry Carol

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Details about The Coventry Carol | Associated sheet music

Words : attributed to Robert Croo, 1534.

Music : English melody, 1591.

Source : Bramley and Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old, Third Series (London : Novello, Ewer & Co., ca 1878). Carol no. 61.

This Christmas carol tells the story of the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod the Great.

It is named after the city of Coventry (England), where the Century Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors depicted this cruel event.

Details about The Coventry Carol

Title : The Coventry Carol
Subtitle : Lully Lullay - Christmas Carol - Christmas Hymn
Composer : (Anonymous)
Catalog :
Style : Christmas Hymns & Carols
Composed/published : 1591
Original instrumentation : Piano

Sources : Anonymous, The Coventry Carol.

Sheet music associated with The Coventry Carol

Catalogue	Title	Key	Instrumentation
	The Coventry Carol	G minor	Piano
	The Coventry Carol	G minor	Violin and piano
	The Coventry Carol	G minor	Trumpet in Bb and piano