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Carols can be sung by individual singers, but are also often sung by larger groups, including professionally trained choirs. Most churches have special services at which carols are sung, generally combined with readings from scripture about the birth of Christ, often this is based on the famous Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at Cambridge. Some of these services also include other music written for Christmas, such as Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" (for choir and harp), or excerpts from Handel's "Messiah."

There is also a tradition of performances of serious music relating to Christmas in the period around Christmas, including Handel's "Messiah," the "Christmas Oratorio" by J. S. Bach, "Midnight Mass for Christmas" by Charpentier, and "L'Enfance du Christ" by Berlioz.

In England there is a tradition of Christmas carolling (earlier known as wassailing), in which groups of singers travel from house to house, singing carols, for which they are often rewarded with money, mince pies, or a glass of an appropriate drink. Money collected in this way is normally given to charity.

In Australia, where it is the middle of summer at Christmas, there is a tradition of Carols by Candlelight concerts which are held outdoors at night in cities and towns during the weeks leading up to Christmas. In Melbourne, "Carols by Candlelight" is held each Christmas Eve. Performers at the concerts including opera singers and musical theatre performers and popular music singers. People in the audience hold lit candles and join in singing some of the carols in accompaniament with the celebrities.

Christmas carols can also be played on musical instruments, and another tradition is for brass bands, such as the Salvation Army brass bands, to play carols before Christmas.

Some of the more popular traditional Christmas carols include:

• "Adeste Fideles" ("O Come All Ye Faithful")
• "Angels From the Realms of Glory"
• "Angels We Have Heard On High"
• "Away in a Manger"
• "Boar's Head Carol"
• "Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella"
• "Carol of the Bells"
• "The Cherry-Tree Carol"
• "Christ Is Born In Bethlehem"
• "Coventry Carol"
• "Deck the Halls"
• "Ding Dong Merrily on High"
• "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
• "The First Nowell"
• "Gabriel's Message"
• "Gesu Bambino"
• "Go Tell it on The Mountain"
• "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
• "Good King Wenceslas"
• "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
• "Here We Come a-Wassailling"
• "The Holly and the Ivy"
• "Huron Carol"
• "I Saw Three Ships"
• "I Wonder As I Wander"
• "In Dulci Jubilo" ("Good Christian Men, Rejoice")
• "In the Bleak Midwinter"
• "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
• "Joy to the World"
• "Mary Did You Know?"
• "Masters in the Hall"
• "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" ("Veni, Veni, Emmanuel"; actually an Advent hymn)
• "O Holy Night"
• "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
• "O Tannenbaum"
• "Once In Royal David's City"
• "Personent Hodie"
• "Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow"
• "Sans Day Carol"
• "Silent Night" (written by Franz Xaver Gruber)
• "Silver and Gold"
• "Still, Still, Still"
• "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
• "The Wassail Song"
• "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
• "We Three Kings Of Orient Are" (actually an Epiphany carol)
• "Wexford Carol"
• "What Child Is This?"
• "While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night"

Some other popular Christmas songs that are not carols include:

• "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
• "Beginning to Look a lot like Chistmas"
• "Blue Christmas"
• "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
• "The Christmas Song"
• "Christmas Time: Don't Let The Bells End" - The Darkness
• "Deck the Halls"
• "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
• "Feliz Navidad"
• "Frosty the Snowman"
• "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
• "Here Comes Santa Claus"
• "Jingle Bell Rock"
• "Jingle Bells"
• "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" - John Lennon
• "Holly Jolly Christmas"
• "I Believe In Father Christmas" - Emerson Lake and Palmer
• "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
• "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
• "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"
• "Jolly Old St. Nicholas"
• "Let It Snow"
• "Let There Be Peace on Earth"
• "Little Drummer Boy"
• "Merry Xmas Everybody" - Slade
• "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"
• "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
• "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
• "Silver Bells"
• "Sleigh Ride"
• "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays"
• "Toyland"
• "Up on the Housetop"
• "White Christmas"
• "Winter Wonderland"
• "Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney

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