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
edit6th century
edit12th century
edit- Veni, veni, Emmanuel (the most common setting in the Anglophone world dates to the 19th century)
13th century
edit14th century
edit15th century
edit16th century
edit17th century
edit18th century
edit19th century
edit20th century
edit- Advent är mörker och kyla
- Adventstid
- Det är advent
- Die Nacht ist vorgedrungen
- In das Warten dieser Welt
- Kündet allen in der Not
- Long Ago, Prophets Knew
- Singet fröhlich im Advent
- Und unser lieben Frauen
- Up, Awake, and Away! (Traditional Galician carol arranged by Philip Ledger)
- Vi tänder ett ljus i advent
- Wir sagen euch an den lieben Advent
Secular Advent songs
editLiterature
edit- 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
edit- Media related to Advent hymns at Wikimedia Commons
