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.
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- Veni, veni, Emmanuel (the most common setting in the Anglophone world dates to the 19th century)
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- 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
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Literature edit
- Gerhard Engelsberger: Bilder vom Kommen Gottes. Dichter, Bilder und Botschaft der Adventslieder. Evangelischer Presseverband für Baden, Karlsruhe [1992], ISBN 3-87210-341-5.
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