This elegant Christmas gift book features the lyrics and music of classic Christmas carols spanning hundreds of years by such composers as Handel, Mendelssohn, Gruber, and Schubert. Accompanying the songs are beautiful Medieval and Renaissance works of art by the painters who gave the Christmas story its humanity, beauty, mystery, and made it accessible to us all. "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing"We Three Kings of Orient Are"Silent Night, Holy Night"Angels We Have Heard On High"O Come, All Ye Faithful"Once in Royal David's City"What Child is This?"Angels From the Realms of Glory"O Holy Night"Joy to the World"The Friendly Beasts"O Little Town of Bethlehem"Masters in this Hall"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"March of the Kings"While Shepherds Watched their Flocks"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"Away in the Manger"On Christmas Night"Ave Maria"O Come, O Come Emmanuel"The First Noel