Advent song
Advent songs (German: Adventslieder) are songs and hymns intended for Advent, the four weeks of preparation for Christmas. Topics of the time of expectation are the hope for a Messiah, prophecies, and the symbolism of light, among others. Several of the songs are part of hymnals such as the German Catholic Gotteslob (GL) and the Protestant Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG).
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
4th century
6th century
12th century
- Veni, veni, Emmanuel (the most common setting in the Anglophone world dates to the 19th century)
13th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
- Conditor alme siderum
- Macht hoch die Tür
- Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder
- O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf
- Rorate cæli (as a separate Advent hymn)
- Venez divin Messie
- Wie soll ich dich empfangen
18th century
- Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
- Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
- Lo! He comes with clouds descending
- On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
- Tauet, Himmel, den Gerechten
19th century
20th century
- Advent är mörker och kyla
- Adventstid
- Det är advent
- Die Nacht ist vorgedrungen
- Kündet allen in der Not
- Long Ago, Prophets Knew
- Und unser lieben Frauen
- Up, Awake, and Away! (Traditional Galician carol arranged by Philip Ledger)
- Vi tänder ett ljus i advent
Secular Advent songs
- Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt
- Leise rieselt der Schnee
- Morgen, Kinder, wird’s was geben
Literature
- Gerhard Engelsberger: Bilder vom Kommen Gottes. Dichter, Bilder und Botschaft der Adventslieder. Evangelischer Presseverband für Baden, Karlsruhe [1992], ISBN 3-87210-341-5.
External links
- Media related to Advent hymns at Wikimedia Commons
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