Why are there no Easter carols?

[Wilson23]

Christmas must be the singingest day in the calendar, but what about Easter?

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

lol lol maybe there is on some of the alternate earths in the multiverse

 

[AG31]

Christmas must be the singingest day in the calendar, but what about Easter?

Not sure how you're defining carol, but there are some wonderful shoot-em-up (sorry, God) Easter hymns that people just wait for every year. Maybe you're defining "carol" as hymns you sing for the whole season? Easter starts the season, but there are certain hymns that are typically only sung on Easter Sunday.

 

[Wilson23]

Not sure how you're defining carol, but there are some wonderful shoot-em-up (sorry, God) Easter hymns that people just wait for every year. Maybe you're defining "carol" as hymns you sing for the whole season? Easter starts the season, but there are certain hymns that are typically only sung on Easter Sunday.

Carols aren't hymns.

The only song I can think of approaching an Easter carol is "Here Comes Peter Cottontail."

 

[AG31]

Carols aren't hymns.

Carols certainly are hymns. Calling White Christmas, or Rudolph "carols" is ridiculous.

 

[NemoNautilus]

Easter Parade is one my grandmother used to sing

 

[StillStunned]

Carols were folk songs, not specifically to celebrate any particular event. They fell out of favour and/or were lost to time when nobody wrote them down. In the early-19th century two gentlemen in Britain decided to collect some. Those survived, and if I remember correctly they were linked to the resurgent popularity of Christmas in Victorian Britain. Apparently many of the Christmas carols we know today really aren't that old, or are modern words to older tunes.

Source: Bill Bryson's audiobook about Christmas. I might have misremembered some of the details.

 

[lifeis2short2b]

Who cares ?

 

[Wilson23]

Carols aren't hymns.

The only song I can think of approaching an Easter carol is "Here Comes Peter Cottontail."

I guess what I'm looking for here is something more like "Deck the Halls" than "Frosty the Snowman." Something old and traditional -- a FOLK song.

 

[Shaglus_Ziegler]

Thank god.

 

[Sign54]

Carols were folk songs, not specifically to celebrate any particular event. They fell out of favour and/or were lost to time when nobody wrote them down. In the early-19th century two gentlemen in Britain decided to collect some. Those survived, and if I remember correctly they were linked to the resurgent popularity of Christmas in Victorian Britain. Apparently many of the Christmas carols we know today really aren't that old, or are modern words to older tunes.

Source: Bill Bryson's audiobook about Christmas. I might have misremembered some of the details.

I'm sure there is a reality where Easter is hyper commercialized and Christmas is only moderately so(and while still important, pales in comparison). Also, Australia exists in OUR reality which has a Summer Christmas.

 

[Wilson23]

There is a song called "The Agincourt Carol," which is about King Henry V's conquest of France. So I guess a carol need not be associated with a holiday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agincourt_Carol

 

[Sign54]

There is a song called "The Agincourt Carol," which is about King Henry V's conquest of France. So I guess a carol need not be associated with a holiday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agincourt_Carol

That was a political song in a certain way. Basically like Francis Scott Key centuries later.

 

[Chernosoth]

Easter was a spring fertility celebration. That's food and sex. The Christian version, with cheap candy and no sex, is so boring it's barely remembered as a holiday. When winter is a lean time for everyone and spring means they can finally have enough food, the spring holiday will be festive.