BlueDotMusic's video: BeautifulChristmasCarol Festive Art by Thomas Kinkade The Season of Holly and Ivy Artisan

'The Season of Holly and Ivy' ~ A purely secular Christmas Song from the Victorian period, extolling the virtues of hearth, home, good food and good company. Carols emerged relatively late in the history of Christianity in Britain - anything terpsichorean being frowned upon until the end of the dark ages. Thus the earliest song in this collection, Veni Veni Emmanuel, which dates from the 7th century, is pure 'church.' However as the church relaxed its stance, Carols, sung to dance tunes, began to be more respectable and by the time the spirit of modern humanism had permeated the Middle Ages, they even became respectable. This despite the fact that pagan symbols of fertility and solstice customs were openly incorporated into Carols such as 'The Holly and the Ivy' and 'The Sans Day Carol' (Holly Bears a Berry.) Download 20 Christmas Carols here: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=320917281&id=320917273&s=143444&ign-mpt=uo%3D6 Other videos by Artisan are on the Christmas Carols playlist; http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFA8BCB734E8EFD9D ©2014 blue dot music http://www.facebook.com/bluedotmusic All Worldwide Rights Reserved. Video produced for blue dot music by AllCast http://www.allcast.co.uk